The bank robber who put lemon juice on his face to become invisible to cameras
In 1999 Dunning and Kruger ran a study at Cornell. Found that the people who performed worst on a test were the most confident they'd aced it.
The mechanism is simple — to know you're bad at something, you need the same skills required to be good at it.The robber didn't wear a mask because he genuinely believed lemon juice made him invisible.
He wasn't lying. He lacked the ability to recognise his own incompetence. This is the same reason your worst colleagues are always the most confident in meetings.
u/Mind_Glitch_Ch — 21 hours ago