Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

Apr 2, 2019

The less we know, the more we know it. David and Tamler talk about the notorious Dunning-Kruger effect, which makes us overconfident in beliefs on topics we're ignorant about and under-confident when we're experts. Plus, we break down an evolutionary psychology article on why poor men and hungry men prefer women with big breasts. Trust us, it's a really bad study. We're sure about it.

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Links:

• Resource Security Impacts Men’s Female Breast Size Preferences
• Peez on Freakonomics Radio Live: “Would You Eat a Piece of Chocolate Shaped Like Dog Poop?”
• Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia
• We Are All Confident Idiots - Pacific Standard
• Dunning, D. (2011). The Dunning–Kruger effect: On being ignorant of one's own ignorance. In Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 44, pp. 247-296). Academic Press.