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by chungleong 2566 days ago
Makes sense. Well educated people have educational credentials that protect their self-esteem. They can afford to be intellectually humble. Admitting to mistakes or ignorance doesn't hurt as much.
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Some of them are just intelligent enough to understand that they don't know everything.
Intelligence can't transform the unknown unknowns into known unknowns. Awareness of one's own ignorance has to be taught.