Abbott described perfectly - the Dunning-Kruger effect

OMG. This is Abbott to a T. Basically he's too stupid to realise how stupid he is:

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude.

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Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:

• fail to recognize their own lack of skill 

• fail to recognize genuine skill in others 

• fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy 

• recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they are exposed to training for that skill more