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Tip-Off #68 - Not knowing

Tip-Off #68 - Not knowing

"I'm not young enough to know everything." ― J.M. Barrie, novelist and playwright

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Mar 30, 2023
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There is a fancy name for presumption. Use it, as I am, and you could be an example: the Dunning-Kruger effect, a type of cognitive bias in which people believe they are more intelligent and more capable than they are. The result is named after researchers David Dunning and Justin Kruger, two social psychologists who expl…

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