I've had an epiphany... I completely understand the Dunning Kreuger Effect!

The less you know, the more confident you are that you know all that you need to know. The Dunning Kreuger effect is a potent and damning tool to use when criticizing the people that you don’t agree with… those people that you want to give up on because “they will never” understand the fallacies in their beliefs. They are ignorant of their ignorance (often proud of it) and don’t know that ignorance actually does make you stupid (because you choose to learn no more). But D-K is also the ultimate Catch 22. Everybody is on the Dunning Kreuger spectrum and we can't all be at that righthand peak of enlightenment. Dunning Kreuger isn’t so comforting when you realize (admit) that YOU are on that curve somewhere. Everybody is. Oh shit; me too! P.S. The average person is right in the middle of the curve; the valley of ignorance (and meduim competence). This is another reason to believe in the "Peter Principle". You see if you (or I) think we know where we fall on the D-K curve... we are probably over estimating our knowledge, intelligence, and competence.