[meteorite-list] The Dunning–Kruger effect

[Paul]

The Dunning–Kruger effect is sometimes encountered
in discussing meteorites on this list.

Dunning–Kruger effect
https://goo.gl/J3fcrz and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

Dunning, D., K. Johnson, J. Ehrlinger and J. Kruger,
2003, Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own
Incompetence. Current Directions in Psychological
Science. vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 83-87.
http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/12/3/83.abstract
and https://goo.gl/BEffpS

Kruger, J., and D. Dunning, 1999, Unskilled and
unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing
one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-
assessments. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology vol. 77, no.6, pp. 1121-1134.
https://goo.gl/YWxCIU and https://goo.gl/sJMp8a

Yours,

Paul H.