once my professor asked our class, how will we rate ourselves on a scale of 1 to 10 on our knowledge of C language.
When we finally finished giving our answers, he told me that he'll rate himself a miserly 0.0000001, though he had brilliant knowledge of C.
I wanted to know if people here would give themselves similar rating or not?

similar. totally agree with ur professor

I always hate it when people rate themselves on resumés. "4 stars out of 5 with JavaScript and you don't even know what closure is? Get out of here."

In my experience, people who think they're the best are the biggest noobs. The thing is, the more knowledge you gain, the better you become, and the more realization you get that you don't know shit. That's when the humbleness kicks in.

Developers who know this are the better ones.

it's that experience paradox, the more you know about the field you're in, you'll assume that there is still a lot more to be discovered and are yet to know everything

it's even got a graph plotted vs actual experience and the assumed experience, and it's named after the scientist who discovered it, but I forgot the name.. anyone here knows?

@leviathan07 I guess you mean the Dunning-Kruger effect.

@deadlyRants yea bro that's the one

He might be exaggerating just a bit to make his point.

cool, didn't know there was an actual theory for that phenomenon.

@kanduvisla Thanks. I'll remember your words whenever I'll need to write my resume.

@leviathan07 and @deadlyRants thanks for telling me the exact name of this.

Your professor rates himself under his own scale?

0.00000001 is not in the range [1;10]..?

If he knows 0.000001 out of 10 you better change your teacher...