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You find it nearly impossible to ignore what you know.
The curse of knowledge describes a cognitive bias where individuals are unable to ignore their own knowledge when predicting how others perceive a situation.
It is a behavioral tendency to overestimate others' knowledge, not a literal loss of the brain's ability to simulate ignorance.
You cannot truly remember what it was like to be a beginner.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Camerer, Loewenstein, and Weber, 1989
- What the check found
- The source is correct and the core concept is valid, but the claim oversimplifies the neurological process and the scope of the original 1989 paper.
- 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.