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Ultracrepidarianism

What's a good name for the phenomenon where a talented researcher in one field calls people ignorant about a field the researcher doesn't actually know anything about and is actively misrepresenting?
- cremieuxrecueil, 1:04 AM · Aug 31, 2025
-What's a good name for the phenomenon where a talented researcher in one field calls people ignorant about a field the researcher doesn't actually know anything about and is actively misrepresenting?

-I think that's called Ultracrepidarianism.
by dame_dane August 31, 2025
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Ultracrepedarian

Someone with strong opinions on things they know very, very little about. “a shoemaker ought not to judge beyond his own soles”
Jamie Arnold is an ultracrepedarian when it comes to fantasy football
by BungT September 23, 2018
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