The Illusion of Explanatory Depth

Many of us feel like we understand how a lot of the devices in our everyday life work. Psychologists sometimes talk about what's called meda cognition, which as sort of our cognition about our own cognition. And this is the case where our meda cognitions often wrong. We often think we know something that we actually don't know. In the process of trying to explain it, we can get better calibrated and appreciate what we do when we don't know....