In 1999 psychologist David Dunning and his graduate student Justin Kruger published a paper in which they describe what has come to be known (appropriately) as the Dunning-Kruger effect.  In a recent article discussing his now famous paper, Dunning summarizes the effect as: “…incompetent people do not recognize—scratch that, cannot recognize—just how incompetent they are,” … Continue reading Lessons from Dunning-Kruger