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The Dunning-Kruger effect has become a widely discussed cognitive bias among designers and user researchers in recent years. First uncovered in the late 90s, the effect describes the tendency for people with lower ability in a given area to overestimate their own competence. Meanwhile, those with more expertise tend to underestimate their relative skills. This article will explore the nature and impact of this effect in fields ranging from psychology to user experience (UX) design.

A solar eclipse on a (Meatless) Monday. Here, it is expected to clock in at ninety-two percent, definitely not the stuff of televised hoopla. The night before, my mother-in-law reminds me of the colander trick, the one in which you turn your back to the planets and find a reflective surface. Perched just so against the neighbor’s basement door, it can capture millions of celestial crescents instead of spaghetti. When the planets finish their dance, I head to a friend’s place for some grounding.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain New York Post I often ignore conspiracy theories and their peddlers, going by George Bernard Shaw’s advice “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.” That’s why when watching a short clip of the Oakland City Council debating a resolution that calls for a cease-fire in Gaza, without condemning Hamas, none of the false statements bothered me. Some denied that Hamas, whose terrorists captured their atrocities on video and circulated them, had actually committed their crimes.

Every morning I write an email discussing the business and money behind sports. If you would like to receive it directly in your inbox, subscribe now. Friends, Entrepreneur and sports card collector Nat Turner is teaming up with D1 Capital Partners and Cohen Private Ventures, the family office of hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen, to take Collectors Univ… ncG1vNJzZmigpZmxrbHUqWWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyku8ulnJysn6fAbsHNoq2eqqOaeqJ5lmlnZqWZobmqu80%3D

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. My only personal connection to this story is that for a full year as a teen I thought Miranda Sings was a real person. —Kate On June 28, YouTuber Colleen Ballinger dropped what will likely go down in history as the most ill-advised response to an internet crisis of all time. At least previous hall-of-famers, like Dramageddon and Logan Paul, came with receipts or a sense of (scripted) remorse.

The eighth-richest man in the world could have been anywhere on the night of Jan. 2, 2024, but on this particular evening, he just happened to be in Waco, Texas. Wearing a gray quarter-zip emblazoned with the school’s interlocking ‘BU’ logo, Bill Gates sat directly behind the Baylor bench for the Bears’ 98-79 victory against Cornell. Why the Seattle businessman was there, of all places, wasn’t some elaborate mystery. Gates is dating philanthropist Paula Hurd, a member of Baylor’s board of regents who donated $7 million to have the Bears’ court named after her and her late husband, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, as part of a sparkling new arena, Foster Pavilion, that was hosting its first-ever game that night.

Coloniality is one of the constitutive and specific elements of the global matrix of capitalist power. It is founded on the imposition of a racial/ethnic classification of the world's population, serving as the cornerstone of such power. It operates on every material and subjective plane, sphere, and dimension of everyday social existence, doing so at a societal level [as well as planetary]. Coloniality originates and globalizes from [the colonization of what is now known as] America.

This is Part 4 in my ongoing series on the future of football. Here are the previous installments: Part 1, Before the pandemic, the rise and decline Part 2, Why college football on Saturdays and the NFL is on Sundays. Part 3, Super Bowl excitement can't hide football's continuing decline Share I was in Switzerland a few weeks ago at a meeting when, during a break, someone came up to me and said, “You are from Colorado, yes?

Welcome to City Guides, featuring personal recommendations for my favorite neighborhood spots for drinking and eating around New York City and beyond. City Guides is a Friday paid-subscriber exclusive. Since moving to Brooklyn in 2010, all three of the apartments I’ve lived in have had southern-facing views, and each one has been located directly on neighborhood borders. My first place on the corner of Washington and Atlantic Avenue was technically in Clinton Hill, but if I crossed the four busy lanes of Atlantic, depending on what side of Washington I was on, I would either be in Prospect Heights (to the west) or Crown Heights (to the east).