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nestingpheobes's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.5
Lots of anecdotal chapters, I guess I was expecting more numbers and specifics. This book focuses on the broader strokes of knowing what you don’t know.
chris_hendriks's review against another edition
3.0
Nothing you didn’t know if you know you hardly know anything.
ericmayle's review against another edition
5.0
Incredibly intricate look into the nature, neuroscience, and implications (both good and bad) of individual ignorance and communal knowledge. Fascinating. Highly recommend for just about anyone.
dgls's review against another edition
2.0
It's full of complacent, TED talk style language, and the central so-called illusion is easily explained by a flaw in the method. False dichotomies abound, such as the differentiation between individual and "community" knowledge. As is common in such books, the writers fall into the same traps that they warn about, over and over. There are a few quite interesting psychological experiments cited, but that merely lifts the book from a one-star. The strangest thing is that the writers barely mention language at all, which seems an unforgivable lacuna given the subject matter.
Why do I repeatedly do this to myself?
Why do I repeatedly do this to myself?