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The Illusion of Explanatory Depth

The Illusion of Explanatory Depth

This is when you this that your understanding of something is a lot deeper than it actually is. You need to know the difference between what factual knowledge you have in order to build of of it. There are ways to avoid this however, the best one is to us the Feynman technique. 

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I have had 2 tests this week and I got 93% on both of them which is totally an ace for me so here's how I did it. For all the tips there is a diagram provided below.

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