• Your summary is correct. However, most people use the Dunning-Kruger effect to describe individuals with low intelligence as arrogant. Another issue is that most people as soon as they learn about the effect think that they’ve become immune to it.

    • All it does for me is double down the imposter-syndrome.
      I’m not good at this… People keep hiring me, maybe I’m alright at it. Dunning-Kuger is a thing, maybe my “people keep hiring me” ego is making me blind.
      And yet, every day I do cool things, I learn new cool things, I redo old things with my new knowledge
      But still… I’m just pretending