Like I have a bachelors degree in engineering. Is that intermediate or advanced? I feel like saying my science knowledge is anything beyond intermediate is a bit of an overstatement personally.
What I am getting at is that if you have just intermediate knowledge in a bunch of places, I think it lends itself to sensing that you're just a paramecium stuck to the side of some N-dimensional construct. There's so much. I had a professor who was the expert in the second excited state of Helium-3. That was his thing. Just a single needle in the whale-sized blowfish of physics.
That's not overconfident, I'm lead to conclude that you have advanced science knowledge.
I do to and unquestionably I am beginner level.
Each scientific field has specialised and become so dense with knowledge that even new graduates in that field would barely be classed as intermediate.
I'm thinking of times where I went to the library to dig deeper on a topic and discovered a huge and complex topic just laying in wait.