An expert on human blind spots gives advice on how to think || vox

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An expert on human blind spots gives advice on how to think

How to fight the Dunning-Kruger effect, explained by psychologist David Dunning.

By Brian Resnick

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An obvious example people have been using lately to describe the Dunning-Kruger effect is President Donald Trump, whose confidence and bluster never waivers, despite his weak interest in and understanding of policy matters. But you don’t need to look to Trump to find an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. You don’t even need to look at cable news. Dunning implores us to look for examples of the effect in ourselves. 

“The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club,” he told me in an interview last year. “People miss that.”

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