More than a Meme: The Dunning-Kruger Effect as an Opportunity for Positive Change in Nursing Education

The Dunning–Kruger Effect (DKE) describes the cognitive bias in which novices tend to overestimate performance or competence while experts underestimate. Those who are lacking do not have skills accurately recognize deficient performance. Subjective assessment is used widely simulation learning and nursing curricula, yet often without expert feedback reflective discussions, can result mistakes being overlooked encoded, could subsequently clinical errors. prevalence of DKE should be interpreted solely as a deprecation use subjective measures, but rather an indicator need for improving self-reflection, metacognition, opportunity formative feedback.