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[randomness]

There's pretty clearly some corollary of the Dunning-Kruger effect that applies to annoying, irritating, or otherwise unpleasant people.

(Obviously some of the people in those categories are consciously being jerks. On the other hand, there's no reason to think the effect has an exception for social skills.)

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[redbird]

Broadly speaking, no—the difference that occurs to me is that people who think of driving or engineering or cooking as skillsets might not think of social skills that way. I wonder if that effect also applies to things like people assuming they are more dextrous or attractive or socially smooth than they are.

[randomness]

Well, it sure seems to be true right about now. I'm encountering people who think they're smooth who are being jerks, and people who are quite insecure about their presentation who are sweet people.