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Steve Sloman and Phil Fernbach: How Do You Know That?

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Introduction

The Knowledge Illusion is the human tendency to think we understand things better than we do. Steve Sloman and Phil Fernbach have written a book called The Knowledge Illusion, Why We Never Think Alone. Alan Olver: You can have an entire community that has a sense of understanding even though nobody actually understands.

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