29/08/2026
CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE 🧠☠️
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The "curse of knowledge" , also called the "curse of expertise or expert's curse" , is a cognitive bias that occurs when a person who has specialized knowledge assumes that others share in that knowledge.
For example, in a classroom setting, teachers may struggle if they cannot put themselves in the position of the student. A knowledgeable professor might no longer remember the difficulties that a student faces when learning a new subject. This curse of knowledge also explains the danger behind thinking about student learning based on what seems best to faculty members, as opposed to what has been verified with students.
Two related biases are the false consensus bias and the hindsight bias.
People typically overestimate how many people hold the same opinions as them. This is called the "false consensus effect".
"The hindsight bias" is the tendency of people to overestimate how well they could have predicted the future, given knowledge of what has happened.
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