Hinds’ curse of expertise concerns misjudging how difficult a task will be for novices. Familiarity can hide intermediate steps from expert awareness. Observing novice performance supplies evidence that encouragement to think like a beginner may not provide, without discrediting expertise itself.
- FamilyModel
- Category of its source unitEffects, Biases & Phenomena
- DomainMeaning & Clarity
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Effects, Biases & Phenomena
Identifies a bounded pattern in judgment, behavior or communication and the conditions under which it appears. Naming the pattern makes a recurring difficulty recognizable; it does not make the pattern inevitable or supply a complete explanation.