Where You Are Most Wrong

What are you the most wrong about? You know the least about stuff far away from you in distant galaxies, but as you have few opinions about that, and it hardly affects you, who cares?But what are you the most wrong about where you do have opinions, and where they are consequential for you? Seven relevant factors say when you are BLINDED:[B]ound: When you are judged by your group on your confident and unthinking belief in and loyalty to particular claims, you won’t study them well.[L]ow-Impact: When you are wrong about factors relevant for collective choices, your vote barely moves them, and so you have little incentive to think about them to make them better.[I]ndefinite: When concepts come from a high dimensional space where it seems hard to pin them down, separate them, or to define or measure them.[N]on-Connected: When you see relevant concepts as coming from a whole separate realm that has no logical connections to all the usual realms where you know things.[D]evalued: When you…