The Dunning-Kruger Effect
“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’ll be a mile from them, and you’ll have their shoes.”
Jack Handey
Ever tune in to a show like American Idol and watch people who really believed they could sing wind up in tears as they’re sent home? Turns out there’s a name for this phenomenon: The Dunning-Kruger Effect.
No, not the guy from A Nightmare on Elm Street, or the guy from the wagon train going west. (That was Donner). And you really haven’t lived until you’ve pulled a ‘Donner Party of Eight’ at the…