# Another inexperienced couple sinks their boat.

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> [@Broomstick](#):
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> What is the word again for someone so incompetent or ignorant they are oblivious to just how incompetent and/or ignorant they are?

I’m not a psychologist, but I’m absolutely certain you mean the Denning-Kroger effect.

> **[Dunning–Kruger effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect)**
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> The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. It was first described by Justin Kruger and David Dunning in 1999. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence...

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