The Dunning Cruger Effect

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The dunning cruger effect is when people who are not very good at singing, think they're going to win a competition. In the early days it was competing with the name american idol ef effect. People just haven't had the experience that's going to give them a more accurate clue as to where their skill actually lies. It can be tough to break out of psychological cocoons.

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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