ɓuɪʎɐs əɹəʍ ʎəɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ ʍəuʞ ɪ ɥsɪʍ ɪ uɪɐɓɐ ɥsɪuɐds ɓuɪʞɐəds əɹɐ ƿɐəɥ ʎɯ uɪ səɔɪoʌ əɥʇ


...Cornell Study from 1999 called “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments“. It’s a depressing study, with depressing findings:
* People tend to overestimate their own smarts.
* Stupid people tend to overestimate their smarts more than the truly smart do.
* Smart people tend to assume that everyone else is as smart as they are; they honestly can’t understand why dumber people just don’t “get it”, because it doesn’t occur to them that those people actually are dumb.
* Stupid people, in contrast, tend to not only regard themselves as smarter than everyone else, they tend to regard truly smart people as especially stupid. This holds true even when these people are shown empirical proof that they are less competent than those they deride.