[bluepaper]

Forgive me, after a brief look over the Wikipedia article surely it's the opposite of that? "unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average" - so they think they're better than they are, whereas you're suggesting they're doing better than they think they are.

[ryanwaggoner]

I'm talking about this part of the Wikipedia article:

Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding.