Two psychologists from Yale University, Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil, demonstrated in 2002 in Cognitive Science that we greatly overestimate our ability to explain the most ordinary objects. This gap between what we think we understand and what we really know how to detail goes through almost every field of everyday life. The illusion of knowledge lies in a simple spring, because our brain confuses the familiarity of an object with the real m…
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Two psychologists from Yale University, Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil, demonstrated in 2002 in Cognitive Science that we greatly overestimate our ability to explain the most ordinary objects. This gap between what we think we understand and what we really know how to detail goes through almost every field of everyday life. The illusion of knowledge lies in a simple spring, because our brain confuses the familiarity of an object with the real m…