Dunning-Kruger and other memes (2015)
"The less someone knows about a subject, the more they think they know."  I think that's an exaggeration and understood by most people to be one.<p>What <i>is</i>, however, absolutely clear from the original study is that incompetent people have a highly inflated assessment on their own abilities: in all four experiments (!), the people with actual 10% abilities rated themselves at 50-70%.  This is perfectly in line with eg. Urban Dictionary's definition[1]:<p>"A phenomenon where people with little knowledge or skill think they know more or have more skill than they do."<p><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dunning-Kruger%20effect" rel="nofollow">http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dunning-Kruge...</a><p>[1] Chosen intentionally because this is a "popular" source, not an academic one.