The more you think you know, the less you understand.
This doesn’t quite make sense to me.
That would suggest that my perceived knowledge about plumbing systems is a strong indicator that I don’t actually understand them - despite having done it professionally for over a decade.
What I think is true is that someone with a very basic level of knowledge simply doesn’t know what they don’t know - which explains the strong conviction and lack of nuance, for example. But I don’t think that the belief in one’s knowledge or abilities alone is an indicator of the opposite being true.
Then ask yourself this: what proportion of people who consider themselves knowledgeable or intelligent do so based on evidence rather than the Dunning-Krueger effect or simple buffoonery? And what proportion of people who actually boast about it have the emotional intelligence to make interacting with them worthwhile? There’s a reason this behavior is frowned upon.
This doesn’t quite make sense to me.
That would suggest that my perceived knowledge about plumbing systems is a strong indicator that I don’t actually understand them - despite having done it professionally for over a decade.
What I think is true is that someone with a very basic level of knowledge simply doesn’t know what they don’t know - which explains the strong conviction and lack of nuance, for example. But I don’t think that the belief in one’s knowledge or abilities alone is an indicator of the opposite being true.
Then ask yourself this: what proportion of people who consider themselves knowledgeable or intelligent do so based on evidence rather than the Dunning-Krueger effect or simple buffoonery? And what proportion of people who actually boast about it have the emotional intelligence to make interacting with them worthwhile? There’s a reason this behavior is frowned upon.