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You find it impossible to imagine not knowing something.
The curse of knowledge prevents you from accurately predicting the perspective of someone who lacks your expertise.
Once you know a concept, you struggle to reconstruct the mental state of a novice. Your brain treats your current understanding as the baseline reality. You assume others share your context even when they lack the necessary information to grasp your point.
You are biased toward the version of you that already understands.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Camerer, Loewenstein, & Weber, 1989, Journal of Political Economy
- What the check found
- The 1989 paper by Camerer, Loewenstein, and Weber is the correct and authoritative source for the 'curse of knowledge' in an economic context.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
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