Ever notice how the dumbest people tend to overestimate their abilities the hardest? On the other hand, people who perform higher at a given task are more likely to underestimate their abilities. It’s called the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and the internet is full of examples. If you ever catch a self-proclaimed genius beginning an argument with their IQ score in the comment section of a Reddit thread, simply throw in «Dunning-Kruger» and watch how spicy the thread gets. 

We’ve collected a bunch of cringey examples of galaxy-brained intellectuals whose infinite brilliance is too much for our puny minds to handle.