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I suspect that "impostor syndrome" is just what many people feel when the comforting illusion of the Dunning-Kruger effect starts to fall apart.


Actually, the tests made by Dunning and Kruger that led to the coining of that "effect" also showed that competent people tended to rank themselves below their actual level - exactly as described by the Impostor Syndrome.




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