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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The study also found that the true practitioners are more likely to “display overconfidence in their academic prowess and problem-solving skills.” The individuals most likely to claim to be math whizzes, in other words, are also the most likely to claim expertise in subject areas that don’t exist. That finding suggests that people who are particularly boastful of their abilities should be treated with some skepticism.

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Effect of self-perception on others' perception
People perceive confident individuals as competent and, as a result, promote individuals with higher self-confidence.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The study also found that the true practitioners are more likely to “display overconfidence in their academic prowess and problem-solving skills.” The individuals most likely to claim to be math whizzes, in other words, are also the most likely to claim expertise in subject areas that don’t exist. That finding suggests that people who are particularly boastful of their abilities should be treated with some skepticism.

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It's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Though it hardly applies only to rich people, I've rarely met anybody in middle management or above that really deserved that role, other than the fact that they have plenty of hubris on display.

I wrote that last comment before looking at the article and what do you know...

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Effect of self-perception on others' perception
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Dunning-Kruger also works the other way, in that you can do things easily and expect that everybody else can do them too.

It took me many years and developing a sense of empathy to not succumb to it. I'd often find myself getting angry at how little my peers could accomplish in the same time I'd get stuff done. From the most menial of jobs all the way up to some pretty good salaries.

I often thought that they were lazy or stupid, both of the above, or they just didn't care.

Though there are plenty of lazy and stupid people, and people that just don't care, that's just not always the case. My mind works different than most other minds and it often takes me very little time to calculate every detailed step and perform the necessary tasks and functions to get my best ROI for the work put in.

It's a lot less frustrating to work with others when I learned to recognize this.

Work smart, and hard. ~Mike Rowe

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I certainly can see how ' the rich ' would fall into the D-K effect mindset. But let's be real, it's displayed time and time again by entertainers and newsies in the MSM, who believe THEY have all the answers, as they surround themselves w/ YES men and women, and getting what they want takes so little, if any , effort at all.

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I certainly can see how ' the rich ' would fall into the D-K effect mindset. But let's be real, it's displayed time and time again by entertainers and newsies in the MSM, who believe THEY have all the answers, as they surround themselves w/ YES men and women, and getting what they want takes so little, if any , effort at all.

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You mean like * President Trump, dimwit?

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wishy's life just sucks so hard that she tries to bring everybody else down to her level of misery any chance she gets.

It's kind of sad, really, that all those generations of inbreeding leading to a host of physical and mental ailments down in Nilbog still leave her with just a high enough IQ to dwell on just how awful her life is.

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I find the three of you sitting around discussing psychological concepts to be just HILARIOUS- TWITCHY

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I find the three of you sitting around discussing psychological concepts to be just HILARIOUS- TWITCHY

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You're pathetic, TWITCHY. Nobody can have a conversation without you butting in and attacking people for no reason whatsoever??

If Haken wanted to moderate this board and ban the trolls, you'd be the third in line. Jeez, don't you recognize when you're just being a complete douche?

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Originally posted by WISHIMAY:
I find the three of you sitting around discussing psychological concepts to be just HILARIOUS.
This must be what going mad is like.

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I find the three of you sitting around discussing psychological concepts to be just HILARIOUS- TWITCHY

You're pathetic, TWITCHY. Nobody can have a conversation without you butting in and attacking people for no reason whatsoever??
If Haken wanted to moderate this board and ban the trolls, you'd be the third in line. Jeez, don't you recognize when you're just being a complete douche? =SIGNY

Is that also part of Dunning-Kruger? That complete douches don't have the objective perception to understand they are complete douches? = JSF

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The study also found that the true practitioners are more likely to “display overconfidence in their academic prowess and problem-solving skills.” The individuals most likely to claim to be math whizzes, in other words, are also the most likely to claim expertise in subject areas that don’t exist. That finding suggests that people who are particularly boastful of their abilities should be treated with some skepticism.

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It's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Though it hardly applies only to rich people, I've rarely met anybody in middle management or above that really deserved that role, other than the fact that they have plenty of hubris on display.

I wrote that last comment before looking at the article and what do you know...

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Effect of self-perception on others' perception
People perceive confident individuals as competent and, as a result, promote individuals with higher self-confidence.

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Dunning-Kruger also works the other way, in that you can do things easily and expect that everybody else can do them too.

It took me many years and developing a sense of empathy to not succumb to it. I'd often find myself getting angry at how little my peers could accomplish in the same time I'd get stuff done. From the most menial of jobs all the way up to some pretty good salaries.

I often thought that they were lazy or stupid, both of the above, or they just didn't care.

Though there are plenty of lazy and stupid people, and people that just don't care, that's just not always the case. My mind works different than most other minds and it often takes me very little time to calculate every detailed step and perform the necessary tasks and functions to get my best ROI for the work put in.

It's a lot less frustrating to work with others when I learned to recognize this.

Work smart, and hard. ~Mike Rowe

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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When I first read the OP, I thought of a syndrome which, because of the lack of accurate perception of stupid or incompetent people, they are incapable of realizing that they are, in fact, stupid and incompetent.

Turns out, this is also attributed to Dunning-Kruger, although not spelled out that way in this thread.

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