John Paul Scoggins

The Dunning-Kruger effect represents a profound and often frustrating paradox of human psychology, where a lack of knowledge or skill in a particular area creates a double curse. Not only are individuals unskilled, but their incompetence robs them of the very metacognitive ability to recognize it.

Lying is ultimately maladaptive because humans are inherently equipped — both neurologically and behaviorally — to detect deception.