Hey, It's Got a Name!

It's the Dunning-Kruger Effect (H/T Kleiman) which explains why that idiot at the next desk has the presumption to assume he could do your job so much better than you do. As summarized in the fountainhead of all truth and all knowledge (link):

...an example of cognitive bias in which people who are worst at a task show the most illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average.

Also prompts me to consider how many of my faculty colleagues believe they could perform the duties of the presidency better than the incum-- okay, bad example.