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The ironic thing about people citing the Dunning-Kruger effect is that it isn't real, and was confirmed to just be a statistical artifact of that paper's methodology.
Everybody just wanted to believe the idea, so it went unquestioned for twenty years.
All skill levels both under- and overestimate their performance at the same frequency. More skilled people just tend to be less wrong about it.
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