Curse of knowledge

What it is

Finding it hard to imagine not knowing something you know, so explanations skip steps and the audience is overestimated.

Related

• Dunning-Kruger effect bias
  The mirror image: experts can underestimate how hard their skill is for others.
• Chauffeur knowledge bias
  Opposite relationships to knowledge: the curse comes from knowing too much to explain it, chauffeur knowledge from fluency without understanding.

References

• Wikipedia: Curse of knowledge en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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