Good to keep in mind, especially as you’re making data-informed product decisions:
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
— Stephen Hawking
Good to keep in mind, especially as you’re making data-informed product decisions:
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
— Stephen Hawking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
And its very hard to beat this deadly illusion.
Agreed. In general people think they know more than they do. This is arguably worse than mere ignorance – having the illusion of knowledge. Psychologist David Dunning (of the Dunning-Kruger effect) recently wrote in an editorial about his own study.
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/expertise-and-the-illusion-of-knowledge/
Understood, LOL: https://ma.tt/2015/02/advice-and-fallacies/ 🙂
As an atheist, this totally reminds me of my debates with some people that all most convince me that they *know* what god is…
They do not know. They are convinced that they know.
Believing is not the same as knowing.