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On January 6, 1995, McArthur Wheeler and Clifton Earl Johnson robbed two banks, one each in Swissvale and Brighton Heights, at gunpoint without attempts to disguise. Instead, they had covered their faces in lemon juice, believing it would make them invisible to security cameras. Johnson was arrested a few days later, while Wheeler was apprehended in April after being identified in surveillance photographs. Both received multi-year jail sentences. The robberies directly inspired the research of the Dunning–Kruger effect, which describes that people with little ability in a given field erroneously believe to excel in it.
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| dbo:abstract | On January 6, 1995, McArthur Wheeler and Clifton Earl Johnson robbed two banks, one each in Swissvale and Brighton Heights, at gunpoint without attempts to disguise. Instead, they had covered their faces in lemon juice, believing it would make them invisible to security cameras. Johnson was arrested a few days later, while Wheeler was apprehended in April after being identified in surveillance photographs. Both received multi-year jail sentences. The robberies directly inspired the research of the Dunning–Kruger effect, which describes that people with little ability in a given field erroneously believe to excel in it. (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | On January 6, 1995, McArthur Wheeler and Clifton Earl Johnson robbed two banks, one each in Swissvale and Brighton Heights, at gunpoint without attempts to disguise. Instead, they had covered their faces in lemon juice, believing it would make them invisible to security cameras. Johnson was arrested a few days later, while Wheeler was apprehended in April after being identified in surveillance photographs. Both received multi-year jail sentences. The robberies directly inspired the research of the Dunning–Kruger effect, which describes that people with little ability in a given field erroneously believe to excel in it. (en) |
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