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Man Getting Shocked While Repairing Lamp

The Dunning-Kruger Effect, or ‘why incompetent people think they’re amazing’

Source: TED Education

How good are you at basketball? What about playing an instrument? Psychological research suggests we’re not actually very good at evaluating our own abilities accurately. In fact, we frequently overestimate our own abilities thanks to something known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect.







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A Conversation with Sir Patrick Stewart

Source: PBS

In 2010, a modern version of The Tragedy of Macbeth appeared on PBS’s Great Performances. The star of that groundbreaking production, Sir Patrick Stewart, discusses the choices he and director Rupert Goold made to bring Shakespeare’s work to life on the small screen.