Dunning Kruger effect

False confidence is a dangerous thing.

Dunning-Kruger effect, in psychology, is a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge overestimate their own competence relative to the performance of their peers or of people in general.

This effect has been found to be more pronounced in men and in people with strong negative attitudes to science. Looking at the fact that America's 500 highest-grossing companies, translates to around 85 percent male and compounding this with reduced neuroplasticity of the main CEO age group and a higher representation of psychopathy traits in CEOs, there may be a compound negative feedback loop in the selection of our leaders.