Dunning-Kruger by Proxy

Why, among other things, some people think Donald Trump is competent

From the archives, May 2019, with some real explanatory power:

I don't generally go around citing a lot of biz-school research except when it goes along with making fun of David Brooks, but there's some very interesting stuff going on in the conceptual orbit around the so-called Dunning-Kruger effect—the way incompetent people lack the skill to recognize…