By somewhat popular demand, here’s a video of “The Dunning-Kruger Song”:
The song honors the research study “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments,” by David Dunning and Justin Kruger, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 77, no. 6, December 1999, pp. 1121-34.
For writing that paper, Dunning and Kruger were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for psychology, in the year 2000.
The behavior described in Dunning and Kruger’s study has become known as “the Dunning-Kruger Effect.” The Dunning-Kruger effect is on display every day, all around you.
“The Dunning Kruger Song” is the thrilling conclusion of “The Incompetence Opera,” which premiered as part of the 2017 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, and which you can watch on video in its entirety, if you wish.