(And Bill O'Lielly's also)
Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd.
Meanwhile,people with true knowledge tended to underestimate their competence. Psychologists call it the Dunning-Kruger effect, and it explains Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and other lower life forms.
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