Dunning kruger effect

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Today, some of the most important work on our tendency to see what we want to see has been done by a pair of social psychologists, New York University’s Emily Balcetis and Michigan State University’s David Dunning. (Dunning is probably even better known for his research paper “Unskilled and Unaware of It,” which explores what is now called the Dunning-Kruger Effect, the tendency for people who are really bad at something to think they are good at it.)

Balcetis and Dunning actually coined the term “wishful seeing” as they were conducting a 2006 study on the influence of desire on visual perception. One of the experiments in the study involved a group of volunteers who took part in what had been advertised as a “taste testing experiment.” The subjects were told that a symbol was going to flash on their computer screens. Depending on whether the symbol was a number of letter, they would be served either a delicious glass of freshly squeezed orange juice or what was described as “gelatinuous, chukky, green foul-smelling somewhat vicuous concoction labeled as an organic veggie smmothie.”

In fact, the same image appeared before each of the subjects: an ambiguous figure that could be read as either the number “13” or the letter “B” If the subject had been told orange jusice would be served with a number, they were much more likely to see a “13”. If they were told tht it would be served with a letter, they tended to see it “B” ~ Page 101

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