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Haha yes that did strike me too. However, I suppose there could have been other explanations of people's unwillingness to trust algorithms than a cognitive bias of this sort. For instance, the explanation could have been that experts conspire to fool people that they are in fact better than the algorithms. The fact that people mistrust algorithms even in this case, where there clearly wasn't an expert conspiracy going on, suggests that that probably isn't the explanation.