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People with the least political knowledge tend to be the most overconfident in their grasp of facts. Most common among individuals who know the least about politics and those who lean conservative. (www.psypost.org)
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[-] calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago

Good news! They mention it right in the article.

We found that people are generally overconfident in their political knowledge, especially those who truly don’t know much about politics (the classic Dunning-Kruger effect),” the researchers detailed. The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people with limited knowledge in a specific area greatly overestimate their own competence, often because they lack the expertise needed to recognize their own mistakes.

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