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Illusory superiority--the Dunning-Kruger effect.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is defined as “a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability to recognize their [own] ineptitude.”
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Dr. David Dustin and Dr. Justin Kruger won the Nobel prize for psychology with their research.
More here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
I take it that this is the scholarly version of my own favorite explanation that "they don't know enough to know that they don't know"?