I think this is more related to the Dunning-Kruger effect, where incompetent people are very confident in their competence (inversely, competent people are not

I think this is more related to the Dunning-Kruger effect, where incompetent people are very confident in their competence (inversely, competent people are not confident). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect