# Are you really as good at something as you think?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxBrayfordPool
- Speaker: Robin Kramer
- Year: 2022
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/robin_kramer_are_you_really_as_good_at_something_as_you_think)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Does confidence equal competence? Not quite. In a talk that will make you better aware of yourself, experimental psychologist Robin Kramer delves into the Dunning-Kruger effect — which argues that those who are least capable often overestimate their skills the most — and explores just how good you are at judging your own abilities.

## Lectures

1. [Are you really as good at something as you think?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/robin_kramer_are_you_really_as_good_at_something_as_you_think/902115dcc541), 11 min (TED's player)