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csense
on Aug 10, 2015
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Presumption of stupidity
This sounds like an instance of the fundamental attribution error [1]. It's a known human cognitive bias to blame others' failings on internal characteristics while seeing your own situation as more of a product of external influences.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
griffinmahon
on Aug 10, 2015
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Also relevant is the reversed phrase, "Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by X (some other reasonable cause)."
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error