Confidence and Knowledge are anti-correlated… so please, be proud of the extent of your ignorance:-).
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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I wish I could have half the confidence these people have talking about the things I actually know.
OpenStars@startrek.website 5 months ago
force@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Useful corollary: smart people tend to overestimate others’ intelligence, sometimes drastically.
bort@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
OpenStars@startrek.website 5 months ago
To be more clear, I was incompletely referencing only the left side of this curve:
since it seemed closer to what the person I was responding to was speaking about. Ofc you are correct that the right side of the curve also exists, though the amount of effort to reach it seems extremely out of proportion to the level of confidence gained - i.e. it is far easier to just be dumb and think that (or rather, act as if) you know everything, than to make yourself smart and actually know everything, about a particular topic.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 5 months ago
Same with covid.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
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.
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 5 months ago
How do we know that we can trust this author though? 🤔
Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I guess you have to read it to find out…
GluWu@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Are they experts? I probably shouldn’t trust them.