Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
Episode: āBut I Wore the Juiceā: The True Story That Inspired the DunningāKruger Effect | Mistake of the Week
Description: What does a failed bank robbery have to do with one of the most cited ideas in psychology?
More than you might expect.
In this episode of My Favorite Mistake, Mark Graban tells the true story of McArthur Wheeler, a man who believed that rubbing lemon juice on his face would make him invisible to security cameras. Confident in his reasoningāand even more confident in his ability to test itāWheeler walked into two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight, fully exposed, certain that his citrus-based logic would protect him.
It didnāt.
...