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.What is, 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]:"A phenomenon where people with little knowledge or skill think they know more or have more skill than they do."http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dunning-Kruge...[1] Chosen intentionally because this is a "popular" source, not an academic one.