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Are you good at things as you think you are?
你真的有自己想象的那么棒吗？
How good are you at managing money?
你的理财能力怎么样？
What about reading people’s emotions?
解读别人感情的能力呢？
How healthy are you compared to other people you know?
你比你认识的人更健康吗？
Are you better than average of grammar?
你的语法水平比一般人高吗？
Knowing how competent we are and how are skill stack up against other people’s is more than a self-esteem boost.
清楚地知道自己的能力，客观地将自己与他人作比较，不止会让一个人自尊心大涨。
It helps us figure out when we can forge ahead on our own decisions and instincts and when we need, instead, to seek out advice.
它还会帮助判断什么时候我们要相信自己的决定和本能，什么时候我们需要征求别人的意见。
But psychological research suggests that we’re not very good at evaluating ourselves accurately.
但是心理学研究显示，我们很少能够正确地衡量自己的能力。
In fact, we frequently overestimate our own abilities.
事实上，我们经常高估自己的能力。
Researchers have a name for this phenomena, the Dunning-Kruger effect.
研究者称此现象为达克效应。
This effect explains why more than 100 studies have shown that people display illusory superiority.
超过100个研究中，这个效应解释了人们普遍有虚幻的优越感。
We judge ourselves as better than others to a degree that violates the laws of math.
我们高估自己这件事，一定程度上已经违背了数学原理。
When software engineers at two companies were asked to rate their performance, 32% of the engineers at one company and 42% at the other put themselves in the top 5%.
两个公司的软件工程师评估各自的能力，分别有32%和42%的软件工程师认为自己处于顶尖的5%之中。
解析在这里哦！
1. stack up against，动词词组，比较口语化的表达，表示“与……相比”，比如：How does our product stack up against those of our competitors?（咱们的产品同竞争对手相比怎么样？）
2. self-esteem，名词，表示“自尊心”，比如：national self-esteem（民族自尊心）。
3. overestimate，动词，表示“高估”，比如：They overestimated his ability when they promoted him.（他们提拔他的时候高估了他的能力。）
4. Dunning-Kruger effect，专有名词。
达克效应，全称为邓宁-克鲁格效应。它是一种认知偏差现象，指的是能力欠缺的人在自己欠考虑的决定的基础上得出错误结论，但是无法正确认识到自身的不足，辨别错误行为。这些能力欠缺者们沉浸在自我营造的虚幻的优势之中，常常高估自己的能力水平，却无法客观评价他人的能力。
5. superiority，名词，表示“优越性”，比如：gain the superiority over the enemy army（取得敌军的优势）。
