Here comes the critical part: Now realize that you are as ignorant as the average person is in every other area of knowledge in which you are not expert. The Dunning-Kruger effect is not just about dumb people not realizing how dumb they are. It is about basic human psychology and cognitive biases. Dunning-Kruger applies to everyone. In addition to the various aspects of critical thinking, self-assessment is a skill we can strive to develop specifically. But a good rule of thumb is to err on the side of humility. If you assume that you know relatively less than you think you do and that there
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