The strongest effect has been found when people rate themselves on abilities at which they are totally incompetent. These subjects have the greatest disparity between their actual performance (at the low end of the distribution) and their self-rating (placing themselves above average). This Dunning-Kruger effect is interpreted as a lack of metacognitive ability to recognise their own incompetence.

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