The Dunning-Kruger effect

A friend of mine just directed my attention to the so-called (in psychology) Dunning-Kruger effect. We can find in Wikipedia the following (LINK):

"In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude; without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence".

The original paper related to this effect is:

• J. Kruger, D. Dunning, "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, 1121-1134, 1999.

A pdf file of the paper can be found HERE

I found many problems to track recent research work on this topic and I find it very interesting...