I was using “confidence” in a more specific sense, as in “overconfidence”, that is implying that you know what you are doing, in the case where you actually don’t.
This seems reasonable. Misleading about probabilities is deceptive. To be fair on Robert Downey, it doesn’t seem likely that that is the the usage he was making in the quote.
This seems reasonable. Misleading about probabilities is deceptive. To be fair on Robert Downey, it doesn’t seem likely that that is the the usage he was making in the quote.