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The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. It was first described by David Dunning and Justin Kruger in 1999.
Chicago-Read Mental Health Center (CRMHC, often called simply Read) is a state-run inpatient JCAHO-accredited facility with between 150 and 200 beds located in the neighborhood of Dunning on the northwest side of the city of Chicago close to O'Hare International Airport in the state of Illinois.
Dunning–Kruger effect; Einstellung effect; Endowment effect; Face superiority effect; False fame effect; False-consensus effect; False-uniqueness effect; Fan effect; Florence Nightingale effect; Flynn effect; Focusing effect; Framing effect; Generation effect; Golem effect; Google effect; Halo effect; Hawthorne effect; Hedonic treadmill ...
Dunning has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. He is well known for co-authoring a 1999 study [4] with graduate student Justin Kruger after reading about the 1995 Greater Pittsburgh bank robberies in which the perpetrators wore lemon juice instead of masks, thinking it would make them invisible to security cameras.
However, more recent findings found that all forms of illusion, positive or not, were associated with more depressive symptoms [31] and various other studies reject the link between positive illusions and mental health, well-being or life satisfaction, maintaining that accurate perception of reality is compatible with happiness. [5] [32]
"A defence of common sense" is a 1925 essay by philosopher G. E. Moore. In it, he attempts to refute absolute skepticism (or nihilism) by arguing that at least some of our established beliefs about the world are absolutely certain, so they can be legitimately called "facts". Moore argues that these beliefs are common sense.
A mental health tribunal is a specialist tribunal empowered by law to adjudicate disputes about mental health treatment and detention, primarily by conducting independent reviews of patients diagnosed with mental disorders who are detained in psychiatric hospitals, or under outpatient commitment, and who may be subject to involuntary treatment.
[1] [2] Stories published by Dunning-Kruger have been debunked by Snopes.com, [3] USA Today, [4] Reuters, [5] the Associated Press, [6] and by The Guardian and The Houston Chronicle debunking a story taken for a fact by the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, although it referenced a nonexistent Texas city "Hambriston". [7] [8]