Do You Really Know What You Think You Do?

We are generally pretty confident when it comes to things that we know really well. But what if your brain is lying to you… tricking you into thinking you know everything, but you really know nothing?

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Sources:

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/26/8/1295.full
http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sasi/wp-content/uploads/sites/275/2015/11/dunning.advances.11.pdf
http://www.usfinancialcapability.org/results.php?region=US#financial-knowlege
https://psmag.com/we-are-all-confident-idiots-56a60eb7febc#.fl87f318x
http://www.avaresearch.com/files/UnskilledAndUnawareOfIt.pdf
https://www.lucs.lu.se/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Trouche-Hall-Johansson-Mercier-2015-Selective-Laziness-of-Reasoning.pdf
http://psp.sagepub.com/content/28/3/369.full.pdf+html

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