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Nurse and comedian Georgie Carroll. Picture: Jodi Nash

A dolphin, a penguin and an orca walk into a bar, a nurse makes a joke about it

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria, or to the performance of their peers or of people in general. 

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