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Being an expert

The curse of knowledge is about the difficulty in communication that people have when they know something that others don’t, and not just about the difficulty experts have.

This bias can play a role in any situation where one person recognizes something that other people don’t, and then account for it accordingly.

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Predicting other people’s behavior

Having an understanding of how the curse of knowledge affects people’s thinking can help you anticipate their behavior more accurately.

If you are aware that someone else is more knowledgeable in a certain field than others, you can take this into account when predicting how they will behav...

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Minimize the curse of knowledge

You need to be conscious of the fact that people have different levels of knowledge than you.

  • Ask for feedback from the people you are communicating with, in order to confirm that they understand what you are saying.
  • Make sure that you explain the technical terms and concepts ...

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Debiasing techniques

Use various debiasing techniques in order to help you account for the influence of the curse of knowledge.

  • Visualize the perspective of the people that you are communicating with or use self-distancing language.
  • You could also slow down your reasoning process and improve your d...

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The curse of knowledge

The curse of knowledge

It is a cognitive bias that causes people to fail to account for the fact that others don’t know the same things that they do.

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Why we experience the curse of knowledge

Since we spend the majority of the time experiencing things from our own perspective, we struggle to imagine the perspective of others.

The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that makes it difficult for people to account for the fact that other people’s thoughts, belie...

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