All Thumbs and No Fingers A bucket for all things

I bet you know someone with Dunning-Kruger phenomenon?

I really did stumble on to this article and found a instant eureka moment. The explainable and profound need for lesser skilled people (within a particular subject domain) to talk up there knowledge when in the presence of experts was first identified after observation of a range of experiments by Justin Kruger and David Dunning at Cornell Uni. It was latter publish in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 1999.

The phenomenon is known as Dunning-Kruger effect. A number of studies were conducted covering humour, logical reasoning and grammar. The finds suggest that those with less than expert skill when surrounded by experts will exaggerate and overstate their knowledge.

A synical person would probably find it profoundly interesting to conduct this research on a certain president in a certain western country - just to confirm the findings!