News Summary

• We may not be well-placed to know whether our efforts con­sti­tute suc­cess or fail­ure, or whether we actu­al­ly have the skills we think we do.
• The Dun­ning-Kruger Effect “sug­gests that we’re not very good at eval­u­at­ing our­selves accu­rate­ly.” The effect great­ly inten­si­fies at the low­er end of the scale; it is often “those with the least abil­i­ty who are most like­ly to over­rate their skills to the great­est extent”