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Definition Dunning-Kruger effect in British English

Dunning-Kruger effect noun

noun
1

the phenomenon by which an incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence

Example

This is a genuine cognitive bias called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Definition Dunning-Kruger effect in British English