Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?

Hacker News reports on a psychological phenomenon known as the illusion of explanatory depth — the gap between how confident we feel about understanding something and how well we could actually explain it. Most of us experience this: something seems straightforward until we're forced to really articulate how or why it works.

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