Have you ever known someone who was
so sure of their intelligence, skills, and correctness, they couldn't and/or wouldn't listen to reason? You could not tell this person they were wrong; they insisted they were right! They insisted they knew!
Well, you might have been dealing with the
Dunning-Kruger Effect.
According to Rational Wiki:
Quote:The Dunning-Kruger effect, named after David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University, occurs where people fail to adequately assess their level of competence — or specifically, their incompetence — at a task and thus consider themselves much more competent than everyone else. This lack of awareness is attributed to their lower level of competence robbing them of the ability to critically analyse their performance, leading to a significant overestimate of themselves.
In simple words it's "people who are too stupid to know how stupid they are".
The inverse also applies: competent people tend to underestimate their ability compared to others; this is known as impostor syndrome.
If you have no doubts whatsoever about your competence, you could just be that damn good. On the other hand...
Yes, dear friends, there's a name for it!