Kruger and Dunning: Unskilled and Unaware of It; How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.
That really is a great
paper. But there is some subsequent research suggesting that in fact high performers are less accurate at predicting their own performance relative to a group (
Kruger and Dunning, 2002).
TTFN,
WK
P.S. I realise this might not seem very humorous.