# There’s a difference between the Lake Woebegone effect and the Dunning
Kreuger effect.

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There’s a difference between the Lake Woebegone effect and the Dunning Kreuger
effect. While the Lake Woebegone effect means that we tend to rank ourselves
above average more often than is possible, the Dunning Kreuger effect has to
do with scale: the degree to which we overestimate our abilities is inversely
proportional to our actual skill level.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [June 23,
2016](https://medium.com/p/f1f5a8053f22).

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