Is Actual Knowledge Inversely Proportional To Percieved Knowledge?

[ToraToraTora]

Just watched "The Chase" - it struck me, why would you go on a quiz show when you know nothing, unless you don't know you know nothing?

[jim360]

There's also the possibility of mishearing. As a younger lad I was in a quiz and the quiz master asked us "What body of water is usually associated with sewage?" At least that's what we heard, and as a team we were puzzled a bit before offering up "Pipes?"

"No, canals", came the reply. A couple of seconds' thought, and I realised that he had meant to say "Suez", but slurred it.

I think this was also the same quiz where the quizmaster's (grand?)son happened to be on my team. So, in an effort to avoid bias in our favour, he kept favouring the other team. We ended up losing.

[Hypognosis]

@TTT

I cannot begin to guess at the mathematical proportionalities but this is a well-known philosophical chesnut.

There are things which you know and you know that you know them;
things you know but you don't realise that you know them;
things which you are aware that you do not know (aka ignorance;
things which you didn't realise that you didn't know) (aka news);
things which are utterly unknowable (e.g. the afterlife).

There is also Donald Rumsfeld

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns

:)

[Hypognosis]

Rogue bracket, due to an edit. Try again.
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things which you are aware that you do not know (aka ignorance);
things which you didn't realise that you didn't know (aka news);
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