The author is David Dunning, a social psychologist and psychology professor at the University of Michigan. This article was published on October 27th, 2014 but, then updated on June 14th, 2017. For this article, it seems it would be intended for lay audiences and somewhat scientific savvy audiences. Even though the science is translated pretty well in the article. 

The topic of the whole article was about testing people who seem to know everything about a certain topic but, in reality they knew absolutely nothing at all. These people that claim to know something about the topic are actually just as confident as the ones that actually know the topic. Dunning and his colleagues call this effect the “Dunning-Kruger Effect.” As stated in the article “incompetent people do not recognize—scratch that, cannot recognize—just how incompetent they are.” They also multiple examples of this phenomenon through experiments through surveys of financial literacy, science vocabulary, and many other tests. 

This experiment is actually derived from the social experiment that Jimmy Kimmel executed from his mini-show “Lie Witness News” where he asked multiple pedestrians a variety of questions that are true/false. Usually with the intention to make comedic jokes at these people. It does shed light on those that do not show the truth about themselves. It also, in a non-direct way, shows us to realize knowledge is not just knowing everything but, learning things that are unknown to us.

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

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My name is Alex Kang, I’m a photographer and filmmaker in the Philadelphia area, I grew up in Philadelphia. I love to cook, travel, and watch all sports.