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The Dunning-Kruger Effect as it Relates to Birding

10,000 Birds

Or, as Dunning and Kruger wrote when they published their results in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology : People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. Mr. Incompetent: Hey, did you see that eagle? Where did you see an eagle? What do you think it was?