Why (and how) smart people can prove thicker than the rest of us…
[Cough] Not looking at anyone in particular, but I’ve just come across this nice piece of research on the YouGov-Cambridge site. It’s just one reason why most of us are more than just a little suspicious of smart people. On the whole, it seems, they are thicker than the rest of us. Over to Stefan Shakespeare: Psychologists use the term ‘the bias blind spot’ to describe our ability to see the thinking errors of other people while not recognizing the …