Doctors, lawyers, academics are just as bad. "Illusory superiority" applies to a lot of things. Most people think they are 'good drivers' and that is where it

Doctors, lawyers, academics are just as bad. "Illusory superiority" applies to a lot of things. Most people think they are 'good drivers' and that is where it starts. For most cognitive tasks the people who do them probably did fairly well at school, possibly the top 5 or 10 percent and so assume they are smarter than 19/20 or 9/10 people... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority