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Metaignorance
- samratjp 17y ago"The metaignorant are blissfully ignorant of their own lack of knowledge, and consequently are capable of wreaking far more havoc (or at least annoyance) than the merely ignorant." This reminds me of this one Alaskan lady who dresses up like Tina Fey...
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- tjogin 17y agoIgnorance already means this. Not having information about something is not ignorance, not realizing so is.
- stingraycharles 17y agoExactly. I assumed that meta-ignorance would be about not realizing that not having the information about something is making you ignorant, but instead the author just gives examples of being ignorant. It's kind of ironic actually.
- jacabado 17y agoBut the ignorance anedoctes he tells all follow some ignorance patterns. Metaignorance should be described by these ignorance patterns: the context, the problems and how their solution will be missed, the ignorant rational. These ignorance patterns are distinguished from anti-patterns as they describe the process by which the solution is missed instead of the erroneous solution.
- tome 17y agoThis is the Dunning-Kruger effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
- pygy_ 17y agoThe idea isn't new [1], but I like the word he coined. Metaignorance is way more explicit that the "Dunning-Kruger effect". :-) 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
- gojomo 17y agoDonald Rumsfeld famously put it this way: There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we do not know we don't know. This fellow's 'metaignorance' describes people who have a surprisingly large number of 'unknown unknowns'.
- MaysonL 17y agoOf course, his major problem is the one he left out: the unknown knowns. The things "known" that really aren't so.
- dasil003 17y agoI can't say the term is all that great, but man, the anecdotes are written hilariously.
- nekopa 17y agoThis is all well and good, but what is the fix? I am aware that there is a lot of stuff I don't know that I don't know (boy is that a clumsy statement) but what steps to take to avoid the whole Dunning-Kruger effect? I don't want to deprecate myself, but at the same time, how do I go about finding out what it is I don't know I don't know? (!?!?)