It ain’t ignorance [that] causes so much trouble; it’s folks knowing so much that ain’t so.
Josh Billings
(h/t Robin Hanson)
Famously subverted by Ronald Reagan as:
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.
How is that a subversion? It is exactly in accord with the original.
The key phrase is “our liberal friends.” Everyone suffers from illusion of transparency, Dunning-Kruger, and etc., but Reagan is applying the bias selectively.
Josh Billings
(h/t Robin Hanson)
Famously subverted by Ronald Reagan as:
How is that a subversion? It is exactly in accord with the original.
The key phrase is “our liberal friends.” Everyone suffers from illusion of transparency, Dunning-Kruger, and etc., but Reagan is applying the bias selectively.