Skilled or unskilled, but still unaware of it
How perceptions of difficulty drive miscalibration in relative comparisons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6205536 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine A Burson (0009-0009-1510-1705, University of Michigan), Richard P Larrick (0000-0002-0491-426X, Duke University), Joshua Klayman (0000-0002-4908-7827, University of Chicago) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-77 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.90.1.60 |
| PMID | 16448310 |
| OpenAlex | W1996281239 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 54 |
| References cited | 53 |
People are inaccurate judges of how their abilities compare to others'. J. Kruger and D. Dunning (1999, 2002) argued that unskilled performers in particular lack metacognitive insight about their relative performance and disproportionately account for better-than-average effects. The unskilled overestimate their actual percentile of performance, whereas skilled performers more accurately predict theirs. However, not all tasks show this bias. In a series of 12 tasks across 3 studies, the authors show that on moderately difficult tasks, best and worst performers differ very little in accuracy, and on more difficult tasks, best performers are less accurate than worst performers in their judgments. This pattern suggests that judges at all skill levels are subject to similar degrees of error. The authors propose that a noise-plus-bias model of judgment is sufficient to explain the relation between skill level and accuracy of judgments of relative standing
Cognitive psychology · Overconfidence effect · Percentile · Percentile rank · Perception · Statistics · Variance (accounting) · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Mathematics · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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Knowledge Calibration
| Unique citing works | 54 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,7 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 51 |