Are the “rich, powerful, or famous … more likely to fall prey to Dunning-Kruger.” I’d say “no.” We all are vulnerable and just as opinionated, but some of us are more likely to have our opinions broadcast over cable TV, newspapers, and social media. That said… 1/n
people with some training that has illusory relevance to public health may misapply that training unwisely into epidemiology. A mathematician will plot growth curves, missing important known facts about disease spread. … 2/n
A lawyer with an informal familiarity with evolution will misapply evolutionary principles where they do not hold. And an economist will see an economic crisis without thinking beyond to the health and human dimensions contained in a medical crisis … 3/n
In short, people suffer from hypocognition—there are concepts, ideas, and phenomena, for example, in public health they simply have no awareness of. … 4/n blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/u…
Hypocognition gives way to what we’ve termed hypercognition, that is, in relying on what we do know, we over-apply our particular expertise to areas where it just doesn’t belong. … 5/n
and ultimately, to epistemic trespassing, which is trespassing onto an expert's area of specialty when it is not your own... 6/n
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Of course, I hope I haven’t been guilty of that here. n/n
