
Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)
Very Bad Wizards
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How Much Do You Know About Star Trek?
The false consensus effect in suc psychology inflates how similar people are to you. Experts seem to think that people must know a lot more than they actually do because of false consensus. We have no idea how much we don't know about something, right? People on the low end overestimateit both raw amount and per centi amount. And people at the top end, they're pretty good at knowing what they don't know.
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