alt Hacker News“'There are unknown unknowns', and while the idea has been around a while, it doesn’t seem to have a name."
There is a name for it. It's called "radical ignorance".
“'There are unknown unknowns', and while the idea has been around a while, it doesn’t seem to have a name."
There is a name for it. It's called "radical ignorance".
Not according to the people that coined the phrase "radical ignorance".
"While there are different types of knowledge and many ways to make it visible, there are also several types of ignorance and different ways in which it might escape the subject's consciousness. For example, while many instances of ignorance fall into the category of unknown unknowns, where an agent is not only ignorant about something but also about her/his state of ignorance, other instances of ignorance fall into the category of ignorance in disguise, where an agent is not only ignorant about her/his ignorance, but also mistakes his/her misbeliefs for valid knowledge, i.e. the ignorance is disguised by misbeliefs accounted as knowledge. Radical ignorance is exactly a phenomenon of this last type. It is very difficult to explore radical ignorance; nevertheless, the so-called Dunning-Kruger effect (Kruger and Dunning 1999) is an example of how such a phenomenon might manifest itself in everyday life."
One of us experiencing irony...
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