Dunning–Kruger effect

Quality:

Dunning–Kruger effect - cognitive bias in which incompetent people tend to assess themselves as skilled. Article "Dunning–Kruger effect" in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4699^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2264^th most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6340^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2936^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Dunning–Kruger effect", its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2273 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1311 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #175 in July 2015
• Global: #810 in October 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #192 in January 2011
• Global: #439 in June 2019

There are 50 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Dunning–Kruger effect		95.6104
2	Portuguese (pt) Efeito Dunning–Kruger		63.5641
3	Basque (eu) Dunning-Kruger efektua		59.2298
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Dunning-Kruger-effekten		56.7484
5	Spanish (es) Efecto Dunning-Kruger		56.0318
6	German (de) Dunning-Kruger-Effekt		49.5304
7	Indonesian (id) Efek Dunning–Kruger		42.4586
8	Vietnamese (vi) Hiệu ứng Dunning–Kruger		36.6029
9	Greek (el) Φαινόμενο Ντάνινγκ-Κρούγκερ		36.4263
10	Hebrew (he) אפקט דאנינג-קרוגר		35.1144

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dunning–Kruger effect		33 146 905
2	Russian (ru) Эффект Даннинга — Крюгера		6 426 088
3	German (de) Dunning-Kruger-Effekt		5 794 464
4	Spanish (es) Efecto Dunning-Kruger		2 183 650
5	French (fr) Effet Dunning-Kruger		1 913 932
6	Italian (it) Effetto Dunning-Kruger		1 687 319
7	Japanese (ja) ダニング＝クルーガー効果		1 042 375
8	Portuguese (pt) Efeito Dunning–Kruger		958 784
9	Polish (pl) Efekt Dunninga-Krugera		943 980
10	Dutch (nl) Dunning-krugereffect		800 593

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dunning–Kruger effect		93 620
2	Russian (ru) Эффект Даннинга — Крюгера		36 518
3	German (de) Dunning-Kruger-Effekt		36 410
4	Spanish (es) Efecto Dunning-Kruger		15 303
5	Japanese (ja) ダニング＝クルーガー効果		13 729
6	French (fr) Effet Dunning-Kruger		13 648
7	Italian (it) Effetto Dunning-Kruger		12 734
8	Polish (pl) Efekt Dunninga-Krugera		7 819
9	Chinese (zh) 鄧寧-克魯格效應		7 298
10	Portuguese (pt) Efeito Dunning–Kruger		6 234

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dunning–Kruger effect		903
2	German (de) Dunning-Kruger-Effekt		244
3	French (fr) Effet Dunning-Kruger		142
4	Russian (ru) Эффект Даннинга — Крюгера		111
5	Italian (it) Effetto Dunning-Kruger		95
6	Spanish (es) Efecto Dunning-Kruger		71
7	Hebrew (he) אפקט דאנינג-קרוגר		54
8	Dutch (nl) Dunning-krugereffect		53
9	Ukrainian (uk) Ефект Даннінга — Крюґера		43
10	Chinese (zh) 鄧寧-克魯格效應		40

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Ефект Даннінга — Крюґера		2
2	German (de) Dunning-Kruger-Effekt		1
3	Japanese (ja) ダニング＝クルーガー効果		1
4	Slovenian (sl) Dunning-Krugerjev učinek		1
5	Arabic (ar) تأثير دانينغ-كروجر		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Danninq-Krüger effekti		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Ефект на Дънинг – Крюгер		0
8	Catalan (ca) Efecte Dunning-Kruger		0
9	Czech (cs) Dunningův–Krugerův efekt		0
10	Danish (da) Dunning-Kruger-effekten		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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