this isn’t necessarily true. people who have more knowledge or reasoning generally have higher confidence in their abilities than those with less, although people with less knowledge tend to have a higher disparity between their confidence and their actual performance. people with more knowledge still think they know more than the people with less knowledge, even though despite the higher confidence they still underestimated themselves.
I wish I could have half the confidence these people have talking about the things I actually know about.
Confidence and Knowledge are anti-correlated… so please, be proud of the extent of your ignorance:-).
this isn’t necessarily true. people who have more knowledge or reasoning generally have higher confidence in their abilities than those with less, although people with less knowledge tend to have a higher disparity between their confidence and their actual performance. people with more knowledge still think they know more than the people with less knowledge, even though despite the higher confidence they still underestimated themselves.
Useful corollary: smart people tend to overestimate others’ intelligence, sometimes drastically.
Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us and How to Know When Not to Trust Them by David H. Freedman
A book recommended by my second year psyc prof.
Are they experts? I probably shouldn’t trust them.
How do we know that we can trust this author though? 🤔
Same with covid.