Fascinating article, Phil. I recognized somebody else as a better exemplar of the article's thesis...

we argue that the skills that engender competence in a particular domain are often the very same skills necessary to evaluate competence in that domain–one's own or anyone else's.....For example, consider the ability to write grammatical English. The skills that enable one to construct a grammatical sentence are the same skills necessary to recognize a grammatical sentence, and thus are the same skills necessary to determine if a grammatical mistake has been made. In short, the same knowledge that underlies the ability to produce correct judgment is also the knowledge that underlies the ability to recognize correct judgment. To lack the former is to be deficient in the latter.

Sound like any President we know?

For example, Fagot and O'Brien (1994) found that socially incompetent boys were largely unaware of their lack of social graces

Puts me in mind of the famous video of Dubya picking his nose in the owner's box during a baseball game, in front of 50,000 spectators.

It is one of the essential features of such incompetence that the person so afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is incompetent. To have such knowledge would already be to remedy a good portion of the offense.
Miller, 1993

"ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
--Charles Darwin (1871)

The little guy's really feeling his oats these days, isn't he? There's nothing like the trappings of the Presidency, exacerbated by the prospect of becoming the first American Caesar, to puff up one's ego, don't you think?

That was quite illuminating. Maybe not the illumination you were shooting for, but illuminating nonetheless. Thanks for providing that insight into our Glorious Leader.

--Robert