Is Dunning-Krueger a new discovery for you? Most of us have known about it for more than 25 years.
And it's quite simple: When tests in various subjects are administered to groups of people, and then the people are asked to guess how they did, the ones with the worst performance think they did the best. The ones who did best were doubtful about their own success. They didn't necessarily think they did very badly, but thought they might have made some mistakes.