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Before you start categorising yourself or other people, you might want to read up on the Dunning-Kruger effect,

    The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in
    which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make
    unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them
    of the metacognitive ability to realize it". The
    unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, 
    rating their own ability as above average, much higher
    than in actuality; by contrast the highly skilled 
    underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory 
    inferiority.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect




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