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Originally Posted by Richard
Might want to be prepared for someone asking this question - So, can it be 'fixed'? - which someone reading your article's thesis might not naturally infer as being possible.
Summary. Thomas Jefferson once said, "he who knows best best knows how little he knows." In Study 4, we obtained experimental support for this assertion. Participants scoring in the bottom quartile on a test of logic grossly overestimated their test performance—but became significantly more calibrated after their logical reasoning skills were improved. In contrast, those in the bottom quartile who did not receive this aid continued to hold the mistaken impression that they had performed just fine. Moreover, mediational analyses revealed that it was by means of their improved metacognitive skills that incompetent individuals arrived at their more accurate self-appraisals.
pp 1127-1130
Attchd pdf of article:
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
Justin Kruger and David Dunning
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999, Vol. 77, No. 6. ] 121-1134
And so it goes...
Richard 
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Thanks for that Richard. It seems it can be fixed. A bit. By making the incompetent less incompetent. How do you make them want it though?