This is a wonderful article

[phillwee]

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
 Abstract:  People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer

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[thedr9wningman]

Sounds like an ego-image problem. "I'm great at X" is the projection. Reality begs to differ. The ego doesn't care.

You're studying interesting shit.

[negaty]

Give ME that test! I would totally kick it's ass! . . . oh