The effect describes a cognitive bias where individuals with low ability in a specific task suffer from a dual burden: they lack the skill to perform well and lack the metacognitive ability to recognise their own incompetence.
While popular culture often simplifies it as "stupid people are too stupid to know they are stupid,"; Listen, Democrats, to a story
That was written long ago
About a kingdom on a mountain
And the valley Dems below
On the mountain was a treasure
Buried deep beneath a stone
And the valley Dems swore
They'd have it for their very own; Go ahead and hate your neighbour
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of "Democracy"
Justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after
One tin soldier rides away; So the Dems of the valley
Sent a message up the hill
Asking for the buried treasure
Tons of gold for which they'd kill
Came an answer from the kingdom
"With our brothers, we will share
All the secrets of our mountain
All the riches buried there"; Now the valley Dems cried with anger
"Mount your horses, draw your sword!"
And they killed the mountain people
So they won their just reward
Now they stood beside the treasure
On the mountain, darkened red
Turned the stone and looked beneath it
"Peace on earth" was all it said; Go ahead and hate your neighbour
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of "Democracy"
You can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after
One tin soldier rides away
