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Ignorance

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Feeling of Knowledge.

Unskilled people tend to overestimate their knowledge[1][2][3][4]. A deliberation based on poor knowledge was named "low information rationality" by Popkin[5]. There are cultural diffrence in overconfidence[6]

References

  1. Kruger, Justin; David Dunning (1999). "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 77 (6): 1121–34.
  2. Kennedy, Ellen J., Leigh Lawton, and E. Leroy Plumlee. "Blissful ignorance: The problem of unrecognized incompetence and academic performance." Journal of Marketing Education 24.3 (2002): 243-252.‏
  3. Dunning, David, et al. "Why people fail to recognize their own incompetence." Current Directions in Psychological Science 12.3 (2003): 83-87.‏
  4. Dunning, David, Chip Heath, and Jerry M. Suls. "Flawed self-assessment implications for health, education, and the workplace." Psychological science in the public interest 5.3 (2004): 69-106.‏
  5. Popkin, S. L. (1994). The reasoning voter: Communication and persuasion in presidential campaigns. University of Chicago Press.
  6. General Knowledge Overconfidence: Cross-National Variations, Response Style, and “Reality”