a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries: highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.
In my 35 years on this earth, I have yet to meet a single person that believed themselves to be "average". This was especially true of those few people who actually claimed to be "average." Almost everyone, in my experience, thinks themselves special in some way (if they engage in introspection at all). We all want to be unique, at least in the West.
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This is the Dunning-Kruger effect:
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In my 35 years on this earth, I have yet to meet a single person that believed themselves to be "average". This was especially true of those few people who actually claimed to be "average." Almost everyone, in my experience, thinks themselves special in some way (if they engage in introspection at all). We all want to be unique, at least in the West.