Does anyone know of research on a cognitive bias towards assuming what other people do/know is easier than it is?
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@wycats@joshsusser Hmm. Yeah, maybe. That is a subclass of “Illusory Superiority” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority … which could give rise to this. -
@wycats@joshsusser@thebestsophist E.g. I think I could do X and it wouldn’t be that hard, therefore it must not have been hard for you? -
@chriseppstein@joshsusser@wycats I’ve been calling it the “smarts is domain specific” problem -
@thebestsophist@chriseppstein@joshsusser Dunning Kruger about "unskilled" vs "incompetent" fits perfectly
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@wycats@thebestsophist@joshsusser But Dunning Kruger is about people who overvalue their own ability. What about undervaluing others? -
@chriseppstein@thebestsophist@joshsusser those are two sides of the same coin :) -
@chriseppstein@thebestsophist@joshsusser it also may be related to Fundamental Attribution Error. - 2 more replies
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