David Dunning and Justin Kruger tested psychology students to see whether the least skilled were also the most unaware. Rich Vintage/E+ via Getty Images To test this, they gave 45 undergraduate ...

Think you have a deep understanding of AI tools and how to use them? New research shows you’re probably wildly overconfident.

A new study reveals that when interacting with AI tools like ChatGPT, everyone—regardless of skill level—overestimates their performance.

New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

In the 1990s, David Dunning and Justin Kruger were professors of psychology at Cornell University and wanted to test whether incompetent people were unaware of their incompetence. To test this, they ...

Few psychological rules have as high a public profile as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Way back in 1999, David Dunning and Justin Kruger showed that the people who were least competent at a given task ...

New research suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) may amplify the Dunning-Kruger effect, with AI-literate individuals overestimating their performance when using AI tools.

The idea that the least skilled among us overestimate their abilities more than anyone else is the gist of what’s known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, something that has appeared in headlines in ...

In the past, some prominent psychologists have explained President Donald Trump’s unwavering support by alluding to a well-established psychological phenomenon known as the “Dunning-Kruger effect.” ...

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