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Re:The most common failure mode is failing to show up by bluepaper on Thursday November 01, 2012 @01:55PM (#4728791)
Forgive me, after a brief look over the Wikipedia article surely it's the opposite of that? "unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average" - so they think they're better than they are, whereas you're suggesting they're doing better than they think they are.
Re:The most common failure mode is failing to show up by ryanwaggoner on Thursday November 01, 2012 @02:02PM (#4728819)
I'm talking about this part of the Wikipedia article:

Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding.