Curious Cook: How to count on food – Part 1

Are you among the small percentage of people who habitually read the ingredients information and nutrition panels on packaged foods? As a food mensch, it simply makes good sense to know what can end up on our dinner plates. Photo: Reuters

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A curious human phenomenon is the Dunning-Kruger Effect (DKE), which states that the LESS some people know about a subject, the MORE entitled they feel that they are experts in the subject. This may sound ridiculous but it is a fact – and it is also pretty certain you would already have met people operating under this delusion.