Watching others makes people overconfident in their own abilities

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Watching others makes people overconfident in their own abilities
March 8, 2018, Association for Psychological Science
 

Watching YouTube videos, Instagram demos, and Facebook tutorials may make us feel as though we're acquiring all sorts of new skills but it probably won't make us experts, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

"The more that people watched others, the more they felt they could perform the same skill, too—even when their abilities hadn't actually changed for the better," says study author Michael Kardas of The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. "Our findings suggest that merely watching others could cause people to attempt skills that they might not be ready or able to perform themselves."

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-03-people-overconfident-abilities.html

[Free Vulcan]

Probably my biggest bone to pick with Millennials. A 101 or even 102 understanding of a subject doesn't make you an expert. Expertise is a thing that generally takes years and lots of mistakes along the way as hard knocks teachers.