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Dunning

To act in a non caring or emotionless way despite actions good or bad To lose care for cause and effect of consequences leading to or post current situation
You know doing this you can get arrested? I'm just gonna pull a dunning.
by Steve urkal March 17, 2022
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Dunning

When you rest your cheek in your hand or palm. Originated in South Florida
Sara adjusted her arm and is now dunning out of boredom.
by Daliar September 28, 2023
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Dunning

The Process when someone is being arrested for doing something funny while they did nothing wrong, but they are taken down cause they're funniness is too overwhelming for one to handle.
Hey! that Police Officer's Dunning that guy for climbing a statue and grabbing its groin area.
by JD. Dunn February 28, 2025
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dunning-krugerrand

A disparaging term for BitCoin, a play on the Dunning-Kruger effect.
He had a lot of Dunning-Krugerrands tied up in Silk Road when the Feds took it down.
by d.w. January 1, 2014
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Dunning-Kruger effect

A condition where a person so dumb, that he fails to realise how dumb he actually is. Frankly, lacking the competence to identify incompetence - often resulting is immense self-confidence and talking massive cock.
bimbo: "I don't eat crabs coz they kill it when it's alive, it's cruel to do that."
dude: "that's the dunning-kruger effect for ya."
by Infected_Banana May 13, 2016
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Dunning-Kruger effect

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein persons of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.

As described by David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the cognitive bias of illusory superiority results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others." Hence, the corollary to the Dunning–Kruger effect indicates that persons of high ability tend to underestimate their relative competence, and erroneously presume that tasks that are easy for them to perform also are easy for other people to perform.
He suffers from the Dunning-Kruger effect.
by Andreas Kuhn August 16, 2017
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Dunning-Kruger effect

When someone is bad/stupid/ignorant in a field, and thinks they are great/good/guru/expert. This normally happens due to people not having enough knowledge in that field to even know that they are bad at this field. A great place to find and report these people is at /r/iamverysmart
Dude1 : I am an expert in math
Dude2 : You are falling to the dunning-kruger effect (seriously wtf why do I have to include the word in this), all you know is how to add and subtract
by Click Here! December 22, 2017
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