How to pronounce “dunning” in English

Now Dunning and Kruger were a pair of social psychologists at Cornell University, and they observed that across all sorts of human activities,

Brian Dunning: Everything you need to know about me is on the screen already.

Brian Dunning: It's a dog.

Brian Dunning: OK.

Brian Dunning: Sonar.

Brian Dunning: Not bees, not a jet engine.

Brian Dunning: Fan?

Brian Dunning: Not a didgeridoo.

Brian Dunning: What's that?

Brian Dunning: That sounds like a dog?

Brian Dunning: Now you see that is circled in yellow up in the corner of this picture.

Brian Dunning: And they triangulated it to this RAF base.

Brian Dunning: Satan says the truth is in the park.

Brian Dunning: Museum?

Brian Dunning: The owl was kept in a cage at the zoo?

Brian Dunning: Piano.

Brian Dunning: We're going to lunch after this.

Brian Dunning: No?

Brian Dunning: That's a very common question.

Brian Dunning: They have some pseudoscience belief.

Brian Dunning: I don't think that's the way to go about it.

Brian Dunning: Well I started to say--.

Brian Dunning: Basically, why are all the food pseudosciences and food-related conspiracy theories so popular?

Brian Dunning: Yes, the question was yes it was a scratch on the head.

Brian Dunning: Homeopathy.

Brian Dunning: The placebo effect – yeah, the placebo effect is often what people describe homeopathy as.

Brian Dunning: Where's the happy medium if you don't wanna buy something that's full of chemicals and you want something that's natural?

Brian Dunning: Dihydrogen monoxide, exactly.

Brian Dunning: A major component of acid rain, exactly.

Brian Dunning: It causes tsunamis.

Brian Dunning: What goes into making an episode?

Brian Dunning: There we go.

Brian Dunning: I hope you have a question and you're not someone telling us you need the room now.

Brian Dunning: Do you need me to repeat the questions for the video?

Brian Dunning: Oh, OK.

Brian Dunning: I guess not.

This is exactly what Dunning and Kruger found, so maybe overconfidence isn't entirely due to how much we know, but also because most of us express

I'm Brian Dunning.

Because as Cornell psychologist David Dunning writes, who is one of the foremost researchers on illusory superiority, the road to self-insight runs through other people.

- Are you confident that this is the actual Dunning-Kruger graph?

In their original research, Dunning and Kruger tested people on tasks like grammar, logic and humor, and then they asked participants to estimate

So how many of you guys have heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect?

Brian Dunning: OK.

critical thinking are just kind of moods-- Brian Dunning: Yes, yes.

Male Audience Member #23: So you interrupted in saying Brian Dunning: Thank you.

Because I used to say that if you're getting dunning notic -- if your boyfriend is getting dunning notices, and you're kind of looking over his shoulder at the mail, you should

and particularly in, with respect to diet-- Brian Dunning: Uh-huh.

So, this was dubbed by Kruger and Dunning, the unskilled and unaware of it phenomenon.

- The, like, Dunning-Kruger graph?