Big Picture Science – Are You Sure You’re Sure?: David Dunning / Confident Idiots

by Gary Niederhoff on November 10, 2014

Are You Sure You’re Sure? – David Dunning
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Part 1 of Skeptic Check: Are You Sure You’re Sure?, featuring David Dunning, psychologist at Cornell University, discussing how the less we know, the more we think we know.
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