So the Dunning-Kruger effect, most often used as a sophisticated form of ad hominem to discredit some idiot on the other side of the interweb and give himself intellectual gloss, has now degenerated as scientific knowledge to the point where it can be used as an indicator of itself, right?

At the risk of replecating myself and getting a crisis, everybody with a brain like mine could have seen that coming.

Sigh...