Have you ever noticed how low intellect people, particularly those associated with universities and politics, consider their own competence to be far higher than it is, whilst intelligent and capable people generally rate their own abilities much lower?

You are not mistaken. This is a well-researched cognitive bias known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

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