2.Why do you think you can study everything the night...

How many times have you watched someone with no talent attending the audition for The Voice, X-Factor, or Indian Idol, only to become a joke? The psychological bias that explains the above behavior is also the same reason you thought you can study everything on the night before the exam. And this psychological phenomenon called the Dunning -Kruger Effect.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a psychological bias first observed by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University in 1999. According to them, "People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains". Which means we are terrible at estimating our competence and our ability to perform in any situation.

According to them, incompetent people in any given skill will fail to recognize their own lack of skill as well genuine skill in others. Sadly, they also fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy. And only recognize and acknowledge their own lack of skill after they are exposed to training of the particular skill. This has been the case with any skill, whether it is reading comprehension or playing tennis.

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