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.
The less we know, the more we know it. David and Tamler talk about the notorious Dunning-Kruger effect, which makes us overconfident in beliefs on topics we're ignorant about and under-confident when we're experts. Plus, we break down an evolutionary psychology article on why poor men and hungry men prefer women with big breasts. Trust us, it's a really bad study. We're sure about it.
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