Dunnie Dunnington

A term used for someone that makes you not want to acknowledge their name for any of the following reasons:

a) You are not interested in their existence
b) You couldn't care less what their real name is
c) There are no other words to describe this person
d) They look like a Dunnie Dunnington

Jeremy: "Dunnie Dunnington, my office now!"
Dunnie: "My name's Martin.."
Jeremy: "You're fired."

by LordGryn December 26, 2011

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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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