The Science of Know-It-All Ignorance

• I Think I Know—The Science of Ignorance

• THE KNOWLEDGE ILLUSION — Why We Never Think Alone

  • The Japanese title lacks the important cut-off information of “thinking alone” and “thinking in community”.

• Amazon

• Humans tend to abstraction information to act efficiently

• You don’t understand the world as well as you think you do. - Illusion of Explanatory Depth

  • intentionality
  • Knowledge Sharing

• Many of mankind’s accomplishments were made possible by a false belief in one’s own level of understanding. In this sense, illusion may have been necessary for the progress of human civilization.

  • cognitive division of labor by Knowledge Community

• In a survey of the public taken immediately after the Supreme Court’s decision upholding key provisions of Obamacare, 36% agreed and 40% disagreed; when asked in the same survey what the Supreme Court’s decision was, 55% of all respondents answered correctly

  • Each member of the community takes a particular position even though they don’t know much about it, which fosters a sense that they know each other.

  • This is how opinions are formed, like a mirage. Members support each other psychologically, but nothing supports the community itself.

    • mass thoughtlessness

• People do not make rational decisions, so we guide them to rational choices (nudge: gently push).

  • To increase enrollment in the program, make it a mechanism for those who do not wish to opt out, rather than for those who wish to opt in.

• Is a mental model that views cleverness as an individual’s ability to process information appropriate?

  • The community, not the individual, is the main body.
  • Related The body is a cache….

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