The Dunan Cruger Effect

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The dunan crugefe up and down is the effect of feeling self-conscious about your abilities. robert provincio says he felt like a three year old trying to play basketball against an adult in his first chess game. He was playing with people who were on the same level as him, but realized that he had mistaken his ability. That's exactly what i'm talking about here.

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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