On: Ask HN: Do you do any mentoring outside of work?

[tyrun]

Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

As someone else pointed out, this is more commonly referred to as Imposter Syndrome.

[shok3001 → tyrun]

> the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein persons of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is

Don't think that is the same as Imposter Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

[vog → shok3001]

The Impostor Syndrome is quite the reverse of the Dunning–Kruger effect.