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There's also the idea on the other side of the coin - whereby experts on a topic underestimate how much they know about it compared to the average person. And
by falcor84 2mo ago
There's also the idea on the other side of the coin - whereby experts on a topic underestimate how much they know about it compared to the average person.
And of course there's a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/
- filoleg 2mo agoImo it would be more accurate to say that topic experts overestimate how much the average person knows about it.
- falcor84 2mo agoSorry, I'm confused. My formulation "experts on a topic underestimate how much they know about it compared to the average person" and your "topic experts overestimate how much the average person knows about it" seem semantically identical to me, just from a different side of the relation. What nuance did I miss?