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Letter: And all shall be, in fact, above average (2)

Published 6 June 2018

From Garry Trethewey, Cherryville, South Australia

So “good mental health” dictates that we all overestimate our abilities. I wonder about the relationship between that and the effect reported by Justin Kruger and David Dunning in “Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments” (doi.org/dks). In other words, those that know least think they know most.

Issue no. 3181 published 9 June 2018

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