It seems to me that another name for this vice is something like the Dunning-Kroeger effect, or, equivalently, simple laziness. Sure, I might think that I've f

It seems to me that another name for this vice is something like the Dunning-Kroeger effect, or, equivalently, simple laziness. Sure, I might think that I've found a mistake in general relativity or something. But I also know, or I should know, that physicists have put in years and years of work to understand those arguments and I just haven't. So the failure to exercise an appropriate degree of epistemic learned helplessness might also be interpreted as a failure to recognize, or a lazy unwillingness to accept, that acquiring subject-specific knowledge---as well as subject-specific metacognitive knowledge to indicate to one that one lacks substantive knowledge, takes actual work which one has not put in.