Ignorance feels alot like expertise The psychology of human wrongness when exposed in public, people sometimes say anything to hide their cluelessness Be wary of the confidence incompetence gives people > IN MANY CASES, INCOMPETENCE DOES NOT LEAVE PEOPLE DISORIENTED, PERPLEXED, OR CAUTIOUS. INSTEAD, THE INCOMPETENT ARE OFTEN BLESSED WITH AN INAPPROPRIATE CONFIDENCE, BUOYED BY _SOMETHING_ THAT FEELS TO THEM LIKE KNOWLEDGE. ### Born Wrong - Be wary of falsely ascribed intentions, functions and purposes to organisms - Purpose driven reasoning leads to wrongly created beliefs, misconceptions, and misinterpretations ### Evolution Theory - One misconception is that there is a level of agency and organization to Evolution. - However, it is not necessarily a game of species level strategy - Cheetahs run faster, and they hand this over to their kids, but individual differences and competition between them too as a result of environmental pressures drives Evolution > Evolution is the result of random differences and natural selection, not agency or choice. ### Motivated Reasoning > THE WAY WE TRADITIONALLY CONCEIVE OF IGNORANCE—AS AN ABSENCE OF KNOWLEDGE—LEADS US TO THINK OF EDUCATION AS ITS NATURAL ANTIDOTE. BUT EDUCATION CAN PRODUCE ILLUSORY CONFIDENCE. ### We are all dummies > BECAUSE IT’S SO EASY TO JUDGE THE IDIOCY OF OTHERS, IT MAY BE SORELY TEMPTING TO THINK THIS DOESN’T APPLY TO YOU. BUT THE PROBLEM OF UNRECOGNIZED IGNORANCE IS ONE THAT VISITS US ALL. #concept