[HN Gopher] The Illusion of Information Adequacy
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       The Illusion of Information Adequacy
        
       Author : omk
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-10-11 16:43 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | the_real_cher wrote:
       | Telling someone they have the illusion of information adequacy is
       | how smart people call people dumb.
        
         | stonogo wrote:
         | There used to be a difference between stupidity and ignorance.
         | Modern usage seems to blur them.
        
       | jgeada wrote:
       | Isn't this just restating the Dunning-Kruger effect?
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       | Without sufficient domain knowledge you don't even know you don't
       | have the right data, perspectives, or even know the apparent
       | obvious paths that are actually blind alleys in a subject. Every
       | field of human knowledge is full of these.
        
         | chrisweekly wrote:
         | Yeah. It made me think of anosognosia -- a condition in which a
         | person with a disability is cognitively unaware of having it
         | (due to an underlying physical condition). Taking the Latin
         | more literally, it's basically "ignorance of one's ignorance".
         | Which is applicable to any number of human endeavors (maybe all
         | of them).
        
         | jtrn wrote:
         | My interpretation: Illusion of information relates to adequacy
         | when evaluating if you have all the necessary information,
         | leading to potential misunderstandings or misinformed decisions
         | because of unseen gaps in knowledge.
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         | The Dunning-Kruger effect is about misjudging your own
         | abilities, leading to overconfidence in tasks or self-rated
         | knowledge of domains.
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         | Both tries to explain why people make mistakes, but one through
         | the lens of cognition and information processing, the other to
         | through arrogance and level of domain expertise.
         | 
         | If these concepts are useful is another matter.
        
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