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Ed Nuhfer

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American geologist and educational researcher who, with collaborators in numeracy and assessment, published a sustained critique of the Dunning-Kruger framing in 2016 and 2017. Nuhfer argued that the canonical pattern is largely an artefact of how the data are graphed, and that better-designed self-assessment instruments show most people, across skill levels, are reasonably calibrated.

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