Why We Think We Know More Than We Do

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Research finds a confidence reversal: people overestimate themselves on hard tasks and underestimate themselves on easy ones.
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One study found AI reversing Dunning-Kruger, making the best performers more overconfident than the worst.
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In the original 1999 experiments, bottom-quartile participants estimated the 60th percentile while actually around the 10th.
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Experts recognize correct answers better than novices, but when wrong, they can be even more certain.
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Epistemic trespassing happens when authority earned in one domain gets used to claim competence in another.
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People are overconfident on difficult tasks and underconfident on easy ones, despite confidence staying moderate to high.
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Calling opponents “Dunning-Kruger” turns a self-reflection framework into an insult that protects your own blind spots.
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People are especially prone to misjudge their ability to distinguish fake news from real news.
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Dunning-Kruger risk is greater in logic than golf because judging performance uses the same abilities as performing.
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Poor performers cannot recognize their errors when the skills for doing a task overlap with judging it.
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Everyone tends to rate themselves above average, so the least capable overestimate their abilities the most.
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A pre-mortem imagines spectacular failure, identifies its causes, and prevents them before the plan begins.
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Differential diagnosis tests alternative explanations instead of settling on the first plausible cause of symptoms.

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