Re:How to be like Steve Ballmer
by brownbat on Thursday December 03, 2015 @08:23PM
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Two hunches:
1) Expertise may cause certain types of bias.
Recent studies have examined this idea of "earned dogmatism": the idea that once you gain expertise in something, your ego builds, and that actually makes you less open minded and less able to revise or challenge your existing beliefs.[0]
2) Overcoming bias is different than overcoming ignorance. Categorically different, and perhaps massively harder.
A different study found expert philosophers exhibiting cognitive biases at the same rate as nonprofessionals, even when dealing with undergraduate-level philosophy problems.[1]
1) Expertise may cause certain types of bias.
Recent studies have examined this idea of "earned dogmatism": the idea that once you gain expertise in something, your ego builds, and that actually makes you less open minded and less able to revise or challenge your existing beliefs.[0]
2) Overcoming bias is different than overcoming ignorance. Categorically different, and perhaps massively harder.
A different study found expert philosophers exhibiting cognitive biases at the same rate as nonprofessionals, even when dealing with undergraduate-level philosophy problems.[1]
[0] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103115...
[1] http://cushmanlab.fas.harvard.edu/docs/schwitzgebel&cushman_...