If you guess and pretend to know what you don’t know, the hurdle of “I don’t know” will be raised, and you will act as if you guessed what you don’t know with low guess accuracy. I have to lower the hurdle by expressing that I don’t know many things on a regular basis.
relevance
- Is not saying you don’t know what you don’t know a form of lying?
- What is a lie?
- Better to be a stupid uncle than a lying, know-it-all uncle.
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