What you don’t know: The role played by errors of omission in imperfect self-assessments

Only human: Exploring the nature of weakness in authentic leadership

“…Caputo and Dunning (2005) labeled these gaps "unknown unknowns" or "errors of omission," referring to errors caused by ignoring or missing possible solutions to ill-defined problems. They noted that people cannot be expected to make accurate self-evaluations since they simply cannot know the extent to which they make errors of omission.…”

Random Number Simulations Reveal How Random Noise Affects the Measurements and Graphical Portrayals of Self-Assessed Competency

“…Self-assessment is a valuable metacognitive skill that improves through instruction (Kruger and Dunning 1999;Caputo and Dunning 2005). Bell and Volckmann (2011) suggested that early identification of students with poor selfassessment skills could allow timely training in self-assessment that might help these students to have greater success in college.…”

Using Accountability Logs to Assess Individual Student Contributions to Capstone Projects: What Happens When One Student on a Team Fails?

“…limited knowledge about a field leads to overestimating one's knowledge and abilities without the capacity to recognize errors due to the overestimation) [6] created the "perfect storm" for a team with the results being a design project disaster -poorly designed and constructed prototypes that couldn't possible work as they lacked logical, practical sense. The work of Caputo and Dunning [2] is a more generalized version of the work by Kruger and Dunning [5]; and, it is very relevant to the ALs and what we noticed with some of the engineering design teams. Caputo and Dunning looked at why people have difficulty assessing their own performance, especially when infrequent, ill-structured problems, or open-ended problems are involved.…”

“…They point out that for tasks, like design tasks, it is almost impossible to know the set of all possible solutions to the problem. As a result, individuals have a difficult time identifying their errors of omissionthe problem solutions that they didn't derive [2]. This generalization of the Dunning-Kruger effect is very relevant to Capstone Project teams.…”