Wednesday, April 12, 2006

what is false authority syndrome

false authority syndrome is where someone thinks they know more about a subject than they actually do, or where people think the person knows more about a subject than that person actually does, simply because the person has expertise in a related field...

the most common example of this that i know of is where a person with some computer expertise (say a tech support specialist, or a computer scientist, or software developer) believes they have advanced knowledge of the computer virus field in spite of being largely ignorant of it...

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