Feld, Jan; Sauermann, Jan; Grip, Andries de - 2017
The Dunning-Kruger effect states that low performers vastly overestimate their performance while high performers more … clarify the role of measurement error, we restate the Dunning-Kruger effect in terms of skill and overconfidence. We show that … as instrument. We then estimate the Dunning-Kruger effect in the context of the exam grade predictions of economics …