The Dunning Cruger Effect

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i asked on the you were not so smart a facebook page, what are some examples from your own lives where you realized you weren't really ready for what you were doing? And i said that i would share some of these on the show. I got a lot of responses here, and they are all great. This one comes from mary joe stewart who says she writes parenting and coming up with an original art project. Both can be classified as have no clue, but need to jump in and keep going. The other element is a something tha we're going to talk about in the interview that dunning coined called a, in the interview, called a mediocrity inab

Have you ever been confronted with the fact that you were in over your head, or that you had no idea what you were doing, or that you thought you were more skilled at something than you actually were? At its most extreme, this is called the Dunning-Kruger effect - the fact that it is very easy to be both unskilled and unaware, and in this episode we explore how it works and where you might expect to see it your own life.

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