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When Ignorance Feels Like Confidence

Former Fellow, David Dunning, described as a “leading researcher on the psychology of human wrongness,” authored the cover story for the current edition of Pacific Standard. In “Confident Idiots,” Dunning explores how incompetent people are often blessed with inappropriate levels of confidence.

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