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The book was referenced to support the idea that one can be blind to their own blindness regarding cognitive biases. The speaker mentioned a line from the book emphasizing that not only are people blind to the obvious, but they are also blind to their blindness.
You know, I think if you look back to the Dunning-Kruger research on this, which by the way, it's an old effect, but there's still new research being produced. And there was even a paper that came out...
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The book was referenced to support the idea that one can be blind to their own blindness regarding cognitive biases. The speaker mentioned a line from the book emphasizing that not only are people blind to the obvious, but they are also blind to their blindness.
You know, I think if you look back to the Dunning-Kruger research on this, which by the way, it's an old effect, but there's still new research being produced. And there was even a paper that came out a couple of years ago. David Dunning is one of the co-authors, and it was called Overconfidence Among Beginners Is a Little Learning a Dangerous Thing? And what I really liked about this paper is that they basically have these graphs of your confidence as you are progressing through multiple trials of tasks.
He wrote, not only are we blind to the obvious, but we are blind to our blindness.
Well, you were quoting Danny Kahneman. And if you ask Danny Kahneman, does reading his book, Thinking Fast and Slow, make you into a less biased, better thinker?