Have you ever noticed how low intellect people, particularly those associated with universities and politics, consider their own competence to be far higher than it is, whilst intelligent and capable people generally rate their own abilities much lower?
You are not mistaken. This is a well-researched cognitive bias known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled, poorly educated person makes bad decisions and arrives at mistaken conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognise their mistakes. – Albert Jack
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