Dunning discusses Dunning and Kruger

David Dunning — the Dunning of the Dunning-Kruger Effect — recently discussed the Dunning-Kruger Effect, interviewed by Corey Powell in the Open Mind Podcast.

The 2000 Ig Nobel Psychology Prize was awarded to  David Dunning of Cornell University and Justin Kruger of the University of Illinois, for their modest report, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.”

They published that paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 77, no. 6, December 1999, pp. 1121-34.]

Seventeen years later, “The Dunning Kruger song” premiered as part of that year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Here’s video of that performance: