The story of McArthur Wheeler was told by social psychologists Justin Kruger and David Dunning in a brilliant paper entitled ?Unskilled and Unaware of It.? In a set of clever experiments, Kruger and Dunning showed that people with the least skill are the most likely to overestimate their abilities. For example, they measured people?s sense of humor (psychologists have learned that almost anything can be measured) and found that those who scored the lowest on their test still thought they had a better-than-average sense of what is funny.
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