The Dunning-Kruger effect isn't what everyone thinks it is: the original 1999 study found bottom-quartile performers overestimated their standing by about 50 percentile points, not that confident people are stupid

The Dunning-Kruger effect may be the most misused finding in pop psychology, and the way people misuse it often says more about them than about the people they are mocking. You have seen the sho...