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Yes, that is certainly a problem. I think that one cause for that is that people are terrible at assessing the abilities of other people, especially in fields they are themselves ignorant of. People usually judge how smart or skilled somebody else is based on their confidence, not on any...

There are certainly cases of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. I don't know if it is the general trend though. It does seem reasonable to suspect that stupid people are less likely to be competent in any given field and more likely to overestimate their own abilities, but I don't know if that trend...