Are short, simplified science videos making us overconfident — without actually making us smarter?
In today’s attention economy, TikTok and similar platforms have transformed how we engage with complex information, such as Science and Psychology.
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But according to recent research, this shift may come at a cost: a rise in false confidence and a decline in true comprehension.
In this piece, I explore how the so-called “easiness effect” — the cognitive bias where easy-to-process content makes us feel more informed — can lead us to mistake fluency for mastery.
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