Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Join me LIVE to discuss the Dunning-Kruger Effect - a cognitive bias that indicates overconfidence based on being underinformed while being blissfully unaware of that fact - and how it is impacting the discourse in our audio hobby and how we might deal with it. Plus, your questions!

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Original Dunning-Kruger Effect Paper...

Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of personality and social psychology, 77(6), 1121.

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Red-curve graph in thumbnail taken from: linkedin.com/pulse/dunning-kruger-effect-career-reinvention-why-matters-yue-wen-lim-fjmsc