The blogsphere adores Kruger and Dunning‘s ’99 paper "Unskilled and Unaware of It". Google blog search lists ten blog mentions just in the last month. For example: Perhaps the single academic study most germane to the present election … In short, smart people tend to believe that everyone else "gets it." Incompetent people display both an increasing tendency to overestimate their cognitive abilities and a belief that they are smarter than the majority of those demonstrably sharper.