Rabbit Hole

People who know very little about a topic will sometimes grossly overestimate their knowledge, and this blinds them to what they don’t know (Dunning-Kruger Effect). The less someone knows, the less meta-cognition exists. There needs to be a baseline of knowledge to even have the ability to evaluate what you don’t know.

Rabbit holes can be pretty misleading and create low-calorie confidence. You go down one thread, and the algorithm or documentary only shows you what you think the hole is. Then the sunk cost and confirmation bias run rampant. You might be blinded by a false or incomplete hole.

If you try to explain something and you hit a wall trying to describe it… that’s your sign. Your sign you don’t have baseline knowledge.

The older I get, the less certain I feel…