Are you really as good at something as you think? | Robin Kramer

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🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Does confidence equal competence? Not quite. In a talk that will make you better aware of yourself, experimental psychologist Robin Kramer delves into the Dunning-Kruger effect — which argues that those who are least capable often overestimate their skills the most — and explores just how good you are at judging your own abilities.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:10.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:13.2	Today, I talk about a really common cognitive bias
0:16.0	that most of us share.
0:17.5	But given the Dunning-Kruger effects popularity and culture,
0:20.8	you probably think you know all there is to know about it.
0:24.0	Cognitive psychologist Robin Kramer unpacks how we might need to think again in his
0:29.4	2022 talk from TED, Brayford Pool.
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0:55.0	I don't mean to brag, but there are lots of things that I'm pretty average at.
1:00.0	From playing table tennis, cooking risotto,
1:02.6	finding countries on a map, just to name a few.
1:05.4	Now in our everyday lives,
1:06.9	we're not typically assess on our skills and abilities,
1:09.7	so we're forced to rely on our own judgments.
1:12.1	I may think I'm pretty decent with Italian
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