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The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes.

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This could be quite possibly one of the scarier things that I’ve read. How can I ever be sure that I’m truly right about anything!? Darn you incompetence and lack of metacognitive ability!!