Questions Considered

Notes on thinking, learning, decision making, and occasionally running. Simple ideas, mostly obvious.

There is an interesting recent article that includes parts of a conversation with David Dunning, of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

I’m beginning to see more implications of the idea that we live in a bubble of our own knowledge. Lately, we’ve done work showing that experts are better able to tell when they’re making a right decision versus a wrong decision. But there’s a twist. When they’re wrong, they’re even more confident that they’re right than novices are. We see this again and again.

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The boundary line between what you know and what you don’t know is fuzzy. It’s a profound thing of being human that we live in a bubble of our own experience.

Why We Think We Know More Than We Do, by Matthew Hutson.

We all live in bubbles of knowledge, bubbles of our own experience. That is very interesting, conceptually.