The article explains the evidence for what they call The Dunning-Kruger Effect, where people lacking knowledge or competence in an area tend to overestimate their ability, and experts in a subject they tend to underestimate their ability. An interesting additional finding was that people at the far end of the 1st category tend to never recognize that they suffer from the effect, and so happily continue on in their incompetence. I don’t mean to pile on, but it’s ironic on so many levels that Robert replied to the article with the comments you quoted, and those below: