Finally, science has proven what we’ve suspected all along – insufferable know-it-alls really don’t know it all.
In a new study published in Psychological Science, American researchers set out to discover if self-confessed experts are more likely to believe fake terms when they are presented as fact. They call the phenomenon ‘overclaiming’.
For example, remember that time when people at Coachella acted like they knew loads of bands that didn’t actually exist? That’s ‘overclaiming’.
One of the experiments tested 100 people’s personal finance knowledge by asking them to describe their understanding of 15 finance terms.
What the test subjects didn’t know… Read the full story