The Dunning Kruger Effect

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The Dunning Kruger effect is a cognitive bias, whereby people with low ability or low expertise tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. And there is a wave, which I can hold on, I can try and show this on the screen. If I share my screen, this should also be recorded. So it's a graph, right? And it's a high ability. It's here. That's where you want to be. There's a big old peak of Mount stupid and then a valley of despair. Yeah. Exactly.

Special Guest Mark Steel joins me to discuss cultural and linguistic differences between the UK and France, plus accents in the UK and a little tour of some places in the UK that you don't know about. Also includes a discussion of swearing and rude language in Britain. What is the R word which you should never say in a specific part of the UK? Listen on to find out.

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