Damn interesting…

When asked, most individuals will describe themselves as better-than-average in areas such as leadership, social skills, written expression, or just about any flavor of savvy where the individual has an interest. This tendency of the average person to believe he or she is better-than-average is known as the “above-average effect,” and it flies in the face of logic… by definition, descriptive statistics says that it is impossible absurdly improbable for a majority of people to be above average. [...] The more incompetent someone is in a particular area, the less qualified that person is to assess anyone’s skill in that space, including their own.

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” — Charles Darwin

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt” — Bertrand Russell

Here I thought that my under estimating my performance was a sign of my not trusting my own work…