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cognition
You are physically unable to forget what you already know.
Once you learn a piece of information, you consistently overestimate others' ability to guess it.
In a 1990 experiment, participants tapped out the rhythm of famous songs and vastly overestimated how many listeners would correctly identify them. The brain struggles to simulate the perspective of an ignorant mind.
Your clear explanations are often missing the essential context.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Newton, 1990
- What the check found
- The study (Newton, 1990) exists and is a seminal work on the 'curse of knowledge,' though the provided reference material did not contain the text to verify it.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.