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Dunning-Krugering

A term for when a person tells you with absolute conviction how undisputed something is, because they read an article or two on the internet that they insist they remember perfectly.
"Oh, goddamit, Karen is Dunning-Krugering all over Facebook again."
by FridayKittie November 8, 2019
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Dunning Kruger Effect

Just go on Reddit for a minute and you'll see it in action.
Reddit is a scientific experient created to prove the Dunning Kruger Effect
by Your father-in-law, Bob February 13, 2023
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Dunning-Kruger Syndrome

Incompetent people who think they are intelligent, but are actually to incompetent to recognize they are are not.

as outlined in the Cornell research named after the professors who discovered it, the Dunning-Kruger Effect..

" incompetent people will:
tend to overestimate their own level of skill;
fail to recognize genuine skill in others;
fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;
recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they are exposed to training for that skill."
Michelle Bachman has a severe case of Dunning-Kruger Syndrome. If only we have universal healthcare that poor woman could get help.

I know that Vice President Biden shows signs of Anaphylactic Agnitio, but I dont know if i would go as far as to say he has Dunning-Kruger Syndrome.
by Sirgay Yakspit March 2, 2014
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Dunning-Poe

Dunning-Poe is when someone is too simple-minded to understand that a post/meme/statement online is, in fact, satire. Like Poe's Law, the reader is confused, but in this case, it is because of their lack of intelligence, not the medium. They won't know this, of course, because of the Dunning-Kruger effect which states someone needs to be intelligent enough to understand a topic thoroughly before they can understand their relatively low expertise on the same subject.
Dude. I posted a meme, and got "dunning-poe'd" in the comments again by Jeff.
by Slash-5 January 24, 2019
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Dunning-Kruger Club

To be a member requires not knowing your a member.

A person who thinks their intelligent and to stupid to relize their not.
Hey Sky! Are you a member of the Dunning-Kruger Club?
by Johnny B OX January 9, 2022
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Dunning–Kruger effect

Person who knows very little: Think he knows alot because he has no idea how deep the wormhole goes.
Person who knows a lot: Think he knows nothing because he knows how much he does not know on the subject.
"This anoying guy thinks he knows everything about atomic energy because he watched a documentary on History channel."
"The Dunning–Kruger effect is real in this one dude."

Opposit:

"Im retarded, complex numbers is killing me. Im the worst at math."
"uhm, what the fuck is complex numbers? I think the Dunning–Kruger effect got you big-tym"
by SkankHunt99 October 27, 2016
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Dunning-Hitler effect

The tendency for countries that believe they are immune to fascism to be especially susceptible to its rise.
The popularity of Geert Wilders is an example of the Dunning-Hitler effect in its early stages.

Donald Trump's presidency is an example of the Dunning-Hitler effect.
by Aunt Tifa Lockhart September 29, 2017
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