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shminux comments on Open thread, July 16-22, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shminux 20 July 2013 07:48:14PM *  -1 points [-]

Seems like a version of the Illusion of transparency (possibly in reverse):

The illusion of transparency is a tendency for people to overestimate the degree to which their personal mental state is known by others. Another manifestation of the illusion of transparency (sometimes called the observer's illusion of transparency) is a tendency for people to overestimate how well they understand others' personal mental states.

What you describe is more like "a tendency for people to overestimate the degree to which" their senses are accurate and assume that they are a true representation of external reality.