{"id":18225,"date":"2021-12-17T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=18225"},"modified":"2021-12-17T16:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:59:24","slug":"incompetent-people-think-theyre-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/incompetent-people-think-theyre-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Incompetent people think they&#8217;re great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have wondered, particularly over the last 5 or 6 years, why incompetent people don&#8217;t realize they&#8217;re incompetent. For example, 88% of drivers think they&#8217;re better than average at driving &#8212; which is mathematically impossible. It happens with all kinds of things. And the people who are the least competent overrate themselves to the greatest extent.<\/p>\n<p>It even has a name &#8212; it&#8217;s called the Dunning-Kruger effect. David Dunning explains it on <strong>TED-Ed<\/strong> here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pOLmD_WVY-E\">Why incompetent people think they&#8217;re amazing &#8211; David Dunning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have wondered, particularly over the last 5 or 6 years, why incompetent people don&#8217;t realize they&#8217;re incompetent. For example, 88% of drivers think they&#8217;re better than average at driving &#8212; which is mathematically impossible. It happens with all kinds of things. And the people who are the least competent overrate themselves to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-18225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-cognitive-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18232,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225\/revisions\/18232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}