Sentences with phrase «illusory superiority»
"Illusory superiority" refers to the tendency of people to overestimate their own abilities, skills, or qualities compared to others. Essentially, it means thinking that you are better than you actually are. Full definition
Alfonse here is suffering from the «Dunning — Kruger» effect which is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate.
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Indie authors are «unskilled individuals that suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate.
It's a cognitive bias psychologists call «illusory superiority.»
Instead they fall victim to «illusory superiority,» a psychological phenomenon that describes people's natural tendency to believe they are better than average.
Funny, but I just saw an article about the Dunning — Kruger Effect, or the illusory superiority of one who's basically to dumb to know how dumb they are.
They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average...» — Wikipedia
Wikipedia summarises the effect as «a cognitive bias in which the unskilled suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average».
This is a cognitive bias called «illusory superiority.»