I was reading a certain basketball blog today and I came across something called the Dunning-Kruger Effect (full disclosure: it was used to refer to Paul Pierce). From the abstract:
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.
My attempt at breaking it down and simplifying it is this: sometimes, people suck too much and are too stupid to realize how much they suck/how stupid they are. Not only that, but their suckiness/stupidity also causes them to believe that other people (who don't suck as much/aren't as stupid) are actually suckier/stupider than they actually are. Boy that paragraph was fun to type.
Anyway, the point is it's a vicious cycle of basically not know what is going on.
What could this possibly have to do with Justin Bieber?
http://amygrindhouse.com/justin-bieber-overestimating-street-cred.html
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