Confidence of Idiots

Why do the least competent people often shout the loudest? Why does your uncle think he knows more about vaccines than an immunologist? Psychologist Timothy Gross explores the Dunning-Kruger Effect in "e;The Confidence of Idiots."e;Gross explains the metacognitive gap: to know you are bad at something, you need the very skills you lack. Therefore, incompetent people cannot recognize their own inco...