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> "That's a challenge. I'm going to go interview there just to prove to these suckers that I'm better."

Well that, or: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

Dunning Kruger does not mean that unskilled people think they do better than skilled people. On average, the more competent people at any skill will rate their abilities higher than the less competent people. See this graph[0] from the original study[1] for a better explanation.

[0]: https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x...

[1]: http://ttsg.org/pdfs/Dunning-Kruger%20Effect.pdf

I meant it the other way round: That some smart people won't have that "I show 'em" attitude and won't even try because they think they are too bad anyways.

The chart supports that assumption to some extent. The smartest are under estimating their percentile.

It would also unfortunately filter out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

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