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A Little Knowledge Can Lead To Overconfidence

A Little Knowledge Can Lead To Overconfidence

A tiny bit of knowledge on a subject can lead people to mistakenly believe that they know all there is to know about it. As the old saying goes, a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing. A person might have the slimmest bit of awareness about a subject, yet thanks to the Dunning-Kruger effect, believe that he or she is an expert.

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you don't know what you don't know. ~ Socrates

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