====Dunning-Kruger Effect====
"The phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge." [[wp>Dunning-Kruger_effect]]

Manifestations include:

  - incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill,
  - incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others,
  - incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy,
  - if they can be trained to substantially improve their own skill level, these individuals can recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill.

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David Dunning of Cornell University and Justin Kruger of the University of Illinois, won the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for 
PSYCHOLOGY for their modest report, "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments." [Published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 77, no. 6, December 1999, pp. 1121-34.]  http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf