"Intelligent people know how much they don’t know, and this only gets worse the more we learn! It’s called the Dunning-Kruger effect."

I believe you got that wrong. The Dunning-Kruger effect is when someone with poor skills overestimates their performance. That's not exactly an indicator of high intelligence or ability to self-reflect.

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Thomas Baumgartner
Thomas Baumgartner

Written by Thomas Baumgartner

Physicist (PhD), engineer, software developer, data manager / analysist, photographer, musician, and (as of late) writer. Lives in Vienna, Austria.

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