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Dave Bowman

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10. They are perfect examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Reply to ananda (Reply #8)

Thu Mar 5, 2026, 11:10 AM

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"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that describes the systematic tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

They are convinced that they know better than everybody while showing abysmal incompetence.

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