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perspective
You use your own life as the ultimate metric.
The 'Curse of Knowledge' describes your tendency to over-rely on your own perspective when judging the knowledge of others.
The phenomenon described is formally defined as the 'Curse of Knowledge', whereas 'egocentric bias' refers to the broader tendency to favor one's own subjective view.
You often forget that what is obvious to you is unknown to everyone else.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Elizabeth Newton (1990) on the tapping experiment
- What the check found
- The definition provided describes the 'Curse of Knowledge.' While related to egocentricity, it is a distinct cognitive bias popularized by Camerer, Loewenstein, and Weber, and illustrated by Newton's tapping study.
- 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.