Dunning
Explanation
A man tells a woman: "He was totally wrong in that post and so I said 'Dunning-Kruger Effect.'" The woman asks: "How good is the evidence for that effect?" The man admits: "I didn't read that part of the Wikipedia entry."
Below, a definition box reads: "Kruger-Dunning (verb): (of a person) Knowing only enough about the 'Dunning-Kruger Effect' to accuse people of it."
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where people with limited knowledge in a domain overestimate their own competence. The comic's joke is beautifully recursive: the person invoking the Dunning-Kruger Effect to dismiss someone else is themselves exhibiting the very bias they're citing. They know just enough about the concept to weaponize it in arguments but haven't actually examined the underlying research (which, incidentally, has faced real methodological criticisms). The invented verb "Kruger-Dunning" (note the reversed name order) captures this specific irony -- using a concept about overconfident ignorance while being overconfidently ignorant about that very concept. It's a meta-commentary on how scientific terminology gets absorbed into internet discourse as rhetorical ammunition rather than as genuine analytical tools.