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ChristianKl comments on Politics Discussion Thread January 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 07 January 2013 10:31:59PM *  1 point [-]

The fact that people have lot of "unknown knowns" in no way implies that they don't have many "unknown unknowns".

People frequently tend to think the know more than they actually do. When it comes to knowledge people are frequently overconfident.