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TIL Bertrand Russel said “in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt”. This is actually a bias called the Dunning–Kruger effect which says unskilled individuals feel an illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their analysis to be much better than it is.

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