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RationalWiki calls the third one 'Ultracrepidarianism', and says it's rather common with engineers in general:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ultracrepidarianism

(the Wikipedia article has that as a subheading on the Ne supra crepidam page instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_supra_crepidam#Ultracrepida...)

But I'd say it's a subtype of the Dunning-Krueger effect rather than part of the general definition.

Personally I've always thought of Dunning-Krueger as an extension of the first definition here. Newbies/amateurs overestimating their skills and experts underestimating them, though I feel like the second definition is probably more true of human behaviour.

parent CM30 3 months ago

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