Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

An animated lesson on the Dunning-Kruger effect, explaining why people with the least skill often overrate themselves, and how anyone can get a more honest read on their own abilities.

Witty animation makes a famous cognitive bias easy to grasp, and may leave you questioning your own confidence.

TED-Ed commissioned us to make a video to accompany their lesson about "The Dunning Kruger effect" by Mr David Dunning. This effect is a cognitive phenomenon wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority

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