• DOI:10.1111/J.1751-9004.2007.00031.X
Corpus ID: 145216437

Faulty Self‐Assessment: Why Evaluating One's Own Competence Is an Intrinsically Difficult Task

@article{Carter2008FaultySW,
  title={Faulty Self‐Assessment: Why Evaluating One's Own Competence Is an Intrinsically Difficult Task},
  author={T. Carter and D. Dunning},
  journal={Social and Personality Psychology Compass},
  year={2008},
  volume={2},
  pages={346-360}
}

T. Carter, D. Dunning

Published 2008

Psychology

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

People’s perception of their competence often diverges from their true level of competence. We argue that people have such erroneous view of their competence because self-evaluation is an intrinsically difficult task. People live in an information environment that does not contain all the data they need for accurate self-evaluation. The information environment is insufficient in two ways. First, when making selfjudgments, people lack crucial categories of information necessary to reach accurate… CONTINUE READING

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