[tovej]

Above average is not unskilled. That does not compute for me. The point is clearly about how lack of skill/experience in a task make people bad at judging how they do at the task. That is clearly what the article Kruger and Dunning) and the article (OP) are both saying.

You could help your argument by explaining how I'm misinterpreting the quote.

[ntonozzi]

Check out this graphic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#...

This is the only thing Dunning-Kruger found.

Actual performance is correlated with perceived performance, mediated by the fact that everyone thinks they are a bit above average.