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Masters in Business

David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews social psychologist David Dunning – of “Dunning-Kruger effect” fame – who is best known for studying why people have problems recognizing their own incompetence.

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This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio.

0:52.3

This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest and what can I tell you?

0:57.0

His name is on the tip of your tongue. You know all about his research. You know all about

1:02.3

the charts that the internet created based on his research. You probably didn't know that that

1:07.5

wasn't originally. His work, David Dunning, famous for the Dunning Kruger Effect,

1:13.3

Professor of Psychology at Michigan. We talk about everything. His research, why people don't know

1:20.8

what they don't know, how we could get better at decision-making. Just absolutely a fastening

1:26.1

conversation. If you're at all interested in human cognition and psychology, in why we think we're

1:31.8

better at tasks than we really are, then you're going to find this to be an absolutely fascinating

1:37.8

discussion. So with no further ado, my conversation with David Dunning.

1:44.6

This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio.

1:50.1

My extra special guest this week is David Dunning. He is a professor of psychology at the

1:56.2

University of Michigan, where he focuses on the psychology underlying human misbelief.

2:03.6

He is best known for his 1999 study with colleague Justin Kruger, unskilled and unaware of it,

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