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A comment on The Two Types of Knowledge: The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test (2015).

Re:The Two Types of Knowledge: The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test... by jfaucett on Saturday April 08, 2017 @01:53PM (#14068075)
This article would have been much better if it didn't suggest people fall into one of these two categories. It seems much more likely this is a spectrum with people distributed throughout depending on topics and contexts as opposed to just a binary this person has planck knowledge or not.

However, the linked article was a nice tidbit https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/05/elon-musk-lying-exp... and rings really true to me. You never forget those problems you spent so much time solving - I'm thinking of you IE6.

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Re:The Two Types of Knowledge: The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test... by mannykannot on Saturday April 08, 2017 @02:23PM (#14068227)
We all know various things to a greater or lesser extent, but I suspect there is more constancy in the personality trait; the extent to which a person may attempt to pass off chauffeur knowledge as Planck knowledge. Then there is the divide between the people who know they are doing it, and those who do not realize that there is a difference (shades of Dunning-Kruger.)
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