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longship

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2. "Conned people rarely will admit they've been conned."

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Nov 7, 2017, 12:28 PM

Nov 2017

Read about the Dunning-Kruger effect for details.

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is.

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