ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Confidence vs. Competence— Why We Trust the Wrong People.
We have entered an era where having an opinion is being confused with having expertise.
And the people actually doing the work are often too busy doing the work to compete with the people talking about it.
Are we following people because they've demonstrated expertise, or because they've mastered the appearance of expertise?
This is your wake-up call.
Below are three psychology-based concepts that I mentioned worth exploring:
— The illusion of explanatory depth: People can believe they understand something more thoroughly than they actually do. When asked to explain the mechanics in detail, their understanding may turn out to be shallow.
— The Dunning–Kruger effect: People with limited competence in a particular domain may also lack the ability to accurately assess their own performance. It's not proof that every confident outsider is incompetent, but it helps frame the importance of testing knowledge.
— Epistemic authority: This concerns who is considered credible and why. Visibility, confidence, credentials, research, and firsthand experience can all influence perceived authority, but they are not equivalent.
We also explore:
— What happens when people take advice from the wrong people?
— How do you know who to trust?
— Why are people so confident about things they don't know?
And to further validate this "trend," Google' added EXPERIENCE to it's published content guidance explicitly discusses experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness—E-E-A-T. And paid $60M to Reddit in 2024 to access to a huge collection of human conversations, questions, and experiences.
This is a huge conversation, thank you for being part of it!
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