No offence to JW, but incidentally is there a term for the common cognitive bias where someone who knows a lot about X assumes (incorrectly) the same applies to superficially similar things Y that they know little about? More specific than mere ‘overconfidence’ or ‘overgeneralising’.
I can’t think of such a term, and AI’s best effort is ultracrepidarianism, which isn’t quite the same, and which doesn’t roll off the tongue. Unless someone else has a better idea, I suggest ‘misgeneralising’. You’re right that it’s a relatively common bias and needs a name.
I think the error is not just that they generalised incorrectly, but that they didn’t know enough to be justified in doing so. So it combines overconfidence and over/misgeneralising.
The word ‘sophomoric’ includes some of the right connotations. One definition says ‘Overconfident but immature or poorly informed’.
So though ‘sophomoric’ is not quite specific enough itself, maybe it could be used to make a new phrase eg ‘sophomoric bias’ or ‘sophomoric generalisation’.
No offence to JW, but incidentally is there a term for the common cognitive bias where someone who knows a lot about X assumes (incorrectly) the same applies to superficially similar things Y that they know little about? More specific than mere ‘overconfidence’ or ‘overgeneralising’.
I can’t think of such a term, and AI’s best effort is ultracrepidarianism, which isn’t quite the same, and which doesn’t roll off the tongue. Unless someone else has a better idea, I suggest ‘misgeneralising’. You’re right that it’s a relatively common bias and needs a name.
I think the error is not just that they generalised incorrectly, but that they didn’t know enough to be justified in doing so. So it combines overconfidence and over/misgeneralising.
The word ‘sophomoric’ includes some of the right connotations. One definition says ‘Overconfident but immature or poorly informed’.
So though ‘sophomoric’ is not quite specific enough itself, maybe it could be used to make a new phrase eg ‘sophomoric bias’ or ‘sophomoric generalisation’.