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A Statistical Explanation of the Dunning–Kruger Effect

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, March 2022
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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41 X users
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2 Wikipedia pages

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Title
A Statistical Explanation of the Dunning–Kruger Effect
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, March 2022
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.840180
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Authors

Jan R. Magnus, Anatoly A. Peresetsky

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 36 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 17%
Professor 3 8%
Lecturer 2 6%
Other 2 6%
Student > Postgraduate 2 6%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 16 44%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 4 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 6%
Psychology 2 6%
Engineering 2 6%
Other 6 17%
Unknown 17 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 June 2024.
All research outputs
#1,170,992
of 26,210,734 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#2,480
of 35,095 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,202
of 451,795 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#51
of 1,781 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,210,734 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 35,095 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 451,795 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1,781 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.