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I searched The DK Effect on positions of power, Verywellmind.com
The basic idea behind the Dunning-Kruger effect is this: if you don't know something, you also don't have the ability to recognize that you don't know it.
People who scored in the lowest percentiles on grammar, humor, and logic tests also tended to dramatically overestimate how well they had performed (their actual test scores placed them in the 12th percentile, but they estimated that their performance placed them in the 62nd percentile).
People who aren't good at something have a hard time recognizing other people's skill and competence levels. That's why they consistently view themselves as better, more capable, and more knowledgeable than others.
The very knowledge and skills necessary to be good at a task are the same qualities that a person needs to recognize that they are not good at that task. So if a person lacks those abilities, they remain not only bad at that task but ignorant of their inability.
A person might have the slimmest bit of awareness about a subject, yet thanks to the Dunning-Kruger effect, believe that they are an expert.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is not synonymous with low IQ. As awareness of the term has increased, its misapplication as a synonym for "stupid" has also grown. The fact is that it is something that affects all of us, no matter how smart we (think) we are. It is, after all, easy to judge others and believe that such things simply do not apply to us.
Top-scoring individuals know that they are better than the average, but they are not convinced of how superior their performance is to others. The problem, in this case, is not that experts don't know how well-informed they are; they tend to believe that everyone else is also knowledgeable.
https://essayx.substack.com/p/when-the-stupid-rule-the-dunning
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dunning-kruger-effect
“Useful men, who do useful things, don’t mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.” – Paulo Coelho
https://dovetail.com/research/what-is-the-dunning-kruger-effect/
https://essayx.substack.com/p/the-mad-king-how-a-nation-normalizes