To pass on your knowledge to others, you not only need to put years of experience into words, which is difficult in itself, but you also need to look at things from the naive point of view of a beginner. When you become an expert on certain topics, it becomes much more difficult to explain the basics to someone without the same knowledge. It is also much more difficult to explain the basics to people unfamiliar with the subject because you cannot remember what questions you had when you were new to the topic. [Sources: 2, 3, 12]
When a person gains knowledge and is familiar with a topic, it is difficult for him to give up his prejudice and knowledge to truly talk about the topic. This article, The Curse of Knowledge in User Experience, will help you understand the concept of the Curse of Knowledge, why people experience it, and learn how to take it into consideration in the most effective way to help you improve your teaching. Communication and prediction of user behavior. Knowledge is the key to innovation, but if used unwisely, it can be a curse. [Sources: 4, 5, 12]
If you are new to your career, consider this an advantage because you can offer new perspectives. If you have a good experience, connect with people and collaborate. You never know who can give you a new insight into the project you are working on. [Sources: 12]
If you are talking to a friend or colleague, think about how knowledgeable they are before you start explaining. Don’t stop wondering if your audience has prior knowledge; o It’s hard to put yourself in the shoes of your audience. As you get used to the jargon of your new environment, it doesn’t take long for you to forget that other people don’t know what you do. In other words, your knowledge can become a curse, a barrier that prevents you from speaking about what customers are interested in in a language they understand. [Sources: 3, 8, 10]
It makes you misjudge how the other person sees, understands, or reacts to something, and since it’s intrinsically difficult to notice, it can do real harm before you catch the mistake. When you get creative it creates problems because it makes it difficult for people to see and understand what others are thinking. When someone wants to explain something in writing, it is difficult to explain it in simpler, more understandable language if you are familiar with the specifications. [Sources: 4, 11]
This often means that concepts, ideas and information are not clearly presented because the person presenting them assumes a certain level of knowledge and understanding from their audience. This is called the curse of knowledge, or the ability to assume that people know what you know, which makes you believe they understand you better than they do. The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that prevents people from adequately explaining the fact that others don’t have as much information as they do. The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when a person, while communicating with other people, unknowingly assumes that others have a background to understand. [Sources: 1, 3, 5, 7]
The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when a person, while communicating with other people, unknowingly assumes that others have a background to understand. Until you find out Wally’s whereabouts, he appears to be completely absent and impossible to find. Since the policeman already knows the way, he does not take into account that this person is not mentally following. [Sources: 4, 6]
Writers need to understand that they need to get feedback and question their writing to make sure the majority of the people in their target audience understand what they are trying to say. When you better understand the curse of knowledge and are aware of all the biases that come in when it comes to how other people think, you can predict their behavior. Since most people are unaware of the curse of knowledge and therefore don’t know how to explain it, understanding how this bias affects people’s thinking can help you more accurately predict their behavior. [Sources: 1, 4, 5]
Thus, the curse of knowledge can be seen as a type of self-centered prejudice that causes people to rely too much on their own point of view when they try to see things from the point of view of others. The curse of knowledge is linked to many other cognitive biases, such as the illusion of transparency, which causes people to overestimate the degree to which their thoughts and emotions are obvious to others, and the empathic gap, which makes people difficult to understand mental states that differ from their current state. states, or struggling to understand how these states affect people’s judgment and decision making. [Sources: 1]
Rather, the curse of knowledge stems from the predictive and communicative difficulties that people experience when they know what others do not know. The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias in which we have not taken into account the fact that there are people who do not share our level of understanding. [Sources: 1, 5]
It is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone mistakenly believes that others have enough knowledge to understand. This cognitive bias leads people who are more knowledgeable about a topic to find it nearly impossible to view it from the perspective of someone who knows little about it. It is also considered a “self-centered bias” because it forces people to only express ideas in terms that they know and disregard the thoughts of others. [Sources: 4, 7, 8]
It is also used to enhance ideas in writing and other creative processes. The term “the curse of knowledge” was coined by economists Colin Camerer, George Lowenstein, and Martin Weber in an article in Political Economy in 1989 to describe what caused people to treat them Cognitive biases that project knowledge and experience of the world onto others. The curse of knowledge does make it difficult for us to accurately reconstruct our previously ignorant or unaware mental state of low consciousness. It is difficult for us to share our knowledge with others because it is difficult for us to reproduce the emotions of the audience. [Sources: 2, 4, 10]
Likewise, the unacknowledged assumption that your partner knows your opinion or might base their views on information you haven’t conveyed will likely make you feel like you clearly understand your wants and needs, even though you haven’t. As I noted in last year’s post on the Dunning-Kruger effect, people who are poorly informed still have a good chance of feeling confident in their opinion because they are not knowledgeable enough to question their undeserved trust. If you know for sure that your idea is objectively superior to the competition, the curse of competitive knowledge makes it easy to implicitly assume that your customers need to treat it the same way. [Sources: 11, 15]
Let the customer decide what’s important to them, don’t let the curse tell you that a feature or product concept is uncompetitive or attractive based on your implied knowledge. [Sources: 11]
— Slimane Zouggari
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[12]: https://digitallearning.arizona.edu/news/curse-knowledge
[13]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
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[15]: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/i-hear-you/202104/whats-the-curse-knowledge-and-how-can-you-break-it