Most people have no clue what a bicycle looks like, much less how one works, even if they own one. http://www.liv.ac.uk/~rlawson/PDF_Files/L-M%26C-2006.pdf …
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People think they understand how can openers work, but are shocked to discover they don’t, when asked to explain: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0364021302000782 …
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Political opinions are due to mistaken belief that one understands policy issues: http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/todd_rogers/files/political_extremism.pdf … via
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Attempting to explain policy effects decreases one’s confidence that they would work, decreases political commitment: http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/todd_rogers/files/political_extremism.pdf …
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The “illusion of explanatory depth” shown in these studies explains why political and moral discourse is so reliably polarized and idiotic.
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Pop summaries of political illusion-of-understanding study: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/06/03/187589613/the-illusion-of-political-understanding … http://bigthink.com/insights-of-genius/political-explanation … http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130429130543.htm …
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