Why incompetent people think they're amazing.
How good are you with money? What about reading people's emotions? How healthy are you, compared to other people you know? Knowing how our skills stack up against others is useful in many ways. But psychological research suggests that we're not very good at evaluating ourselves accurately. In fact, we frequently overestimate our own abilities. David Dunning describes the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Answer the following questions:
Too many people rate themselves as superior to their peers, violating the rules of mathematics. What other ways do people show themselves to be overconfident or underconfident in themselves?
Are there areas where people are more reliably successful in identifying their shortcomings? What distinguishes these areas from areas where people can't recognize their shortcomings?
Experts tend to think that other people know what they know and can do what they find easy. What leads them to make this mistake?
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