A Complete Guide to the Dunning-Kruger Effect

Why do we think we’re better than we are? Let’s look at the research

Neil Kakkar
Better Marketing
Published in
9 min readSep 21, 2019

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A few years ago, my younger cousin beat me at chess in three moves. I’m pretty sure Fabiano Caruana could beat me in three moves too. Using this data point, how do I figure out who is better? To me, my cousin is on par with Fabiano.

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