Is less knowledge better than more?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (5):751-752 (2000)
| Abstract | When a distinction is drawn between “total” knowledge and “problem-specific” knowledge, it is seen that successful users of the recognition heuristic have more problem-specific knowledge than people unable to exploit this heuristic. So it is not ignorance that makes them smart, but knowledge. | |||||||||
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