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It's Okay to Be Smart
Trying to Land a Plane (to Prove a Point)
Season 10
Episode 8
You may not be an expert, but perhaps you feel pretty confident that you could ride a motorcycle, or give someone a decent haircut - if you absolutely had to - right? Not so much, according to the psychological phenomenon known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Turns out we’re all at risk of being overconfident about something.
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