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M. Smithson

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Open access Sep 2026

Combatting Meta-Ignorance in Science Through Dialogs with Diverse Experts

In their provocative paper, Shiffrin, Stigler, and Keil (SSK) declare that scientists have illusions of understanding the phenomena they study “more deeply” than they really do. In this comment I grant their claim a degree of truth and focus on the nature of illusions of understanding. These are a form of meta-ignoranc...

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