The so-called unskilled-and-unaware problem was experimentally identified a decade ago: The unskilled are seemingly … afflicted by a double curse because they also seem unaware of their (relative) lack of skills. Numerous authors have elaborated …

. We propose that the unskilled-and-unaware problem – rather than being one of biased judgements – is one of unbiased …

The unskilled-and-unaware problem describes a negative relationship between one’s skill level and self-assessment bias …: the less skilled are, on average, more unaware of the absolute and relative quality of their performance. In this paper … be especially unaware. We also identify an important difference between the effects of feedback on the calibration of …