All articles tagged with "Metacognition"
McArthur Wheeler robbed two banks in broad daylight wearing no disguise — he had rubbed lemon juice on his face and believed it made him invisible to cameras. The Dunning-Kruger effect: why the skills needed to perform a task are the same skills needed to evaluate performance, and why this creates a double burden that is almost impossible to escape from the inside.
In 1995, McArthur Wheeler robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight without a disguise. When police showed him surveillance footage, he was genuinely baffled. He had rubbed lemon juice on his face, believing it would make him invisible to cameras. This story prompted David Dunning and Justin Kruger's 1999 study: people with limited knowledge systematically overestimate their competence — because the skills needed to recognize incompetence are the same skills needed to perform competently.