i agree with that Vagabond chap up there
there are several things that people do on a regular basis where they overestimate themselves ... driving cars is certainly one example - how many people do you know who would admit to being a "worse than average driver", even though around half your mates-with-driving-licenses almost certainly are?
on a more trivial level, the uniquity of small digital cameras and phone-cameras has made everyone a photographer although a great deal of the resulting imagery is utter crap on a technical level (light, framing, flare, colour), let alone on an aesthetic level ...
as for writing, the UK is now a service economy rather than a manufacturing economy with large numbers of people in contact with words/computers/scripts/emails/spreadsheets every day ... sadly, that doesn't mean that they're all good at it, or can produce something that fits a finite space, has a beginning, middle and end, and conveys meaning/information to the reader ...
as Vag up there points out, there are no end of "senior people" who approach communications with all the intellectual clarity of a baboon trying to fit 3 cubic km of seawater into a 2 litre coke bottle

having a car does not make someone a good driver; having a 12 megapixel camera doesn't make them a photographer; and having a keyboard doesn't make them a writer ... (and for anyone out there who can remember the late 1980s, running Pagemaker on a Mac didn't make you a talented designer)
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Spot on

( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Fri 28 May 2010, 3:00, closed)

*ahem*
second sentence, seventh word should probably be uBiquity...

sorry.
( sanityclause is waiting until, Fri 28 May 2010, 16:51, closed)