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* [Conway's Law](#conways-law)
* [Cunningham's Law](#cunninghams-law)
* [Dunbar's Number](#dunbars-number)
* [Dunning-Kruger Effect](#dunning-kruger-effect)
* [Fitts' Law](#fitts-law)
* [Gall's Law](#galls-law)
* [Goodhart's Law](#goodharts-law)
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- [Conway's Law](#conways-law)


### Dunning-Kruger Effect

[Dunning-Kruger Effect on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect)

In the field of psychology, the Dunning鈥揔ruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence. People experiencing this bias are said to be at the top of "Mount Stupid," (refer to the graph below)-

<img width="500px" alt="Diagram Dunning-Kruger Effect" src="./images/Dunning_Kruger_effect.svg">

The effect suggests that poor performers are usually not in a position to recognize the shortcomings in their performance.

See also:
* [Impostor syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome)
* [Illusory superiority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority)

### Fitts' Law

[Fitts' Law on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law)
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