David Dunning and Justin Kruger would have a field day with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s new film, Something in the Dirt. Back in 1999, Dunning and Kruger discovered that low-performing blowhards tend to credit themselves with a higher capacity than they actually have. They declared this cognitive bias the Dunning-Kruger effect and, 23 years later, everyone’s either an amateur epidemiologist or political analyst. Their point has been proven, while society could use collective reeducation on Dunning and Kruger’s research. Watching Something in the Dirt should suffice.
