According to Wikipedia, the Dunning-Kruger effect was first described by the social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger in 1999 in a study entitled “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.”
Dunning and Kruger posit that people who are incompetent at a task are prone to see themselves as quite competent. In other words, they are too stupid to recognize that they are stupid. They are actually convinced they are doing great.
Until today I never knew that an actual label existed for that behavior. That explains so much.
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