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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is there a technical term to this phenomenon?

You're browsing your favorite news site when you come across an article that directly relates to your field of expertise.

"Sweet," you think as you excitedly click on the link, "It's really cool to see a complex field like this being covered on such a popular news site."

When you start reading the article, however, it quickly becomes clear that the issue at hand has been drastically oversimplified and watered down.

Disappointed, you realize that this article doesn't really paint an accurate picture of the true complexity and nuances of the issue. So, you click on to the next article.

This article -- completely unrelated to your field of expertise -- is super interesting, and you feel like you have a significantly better understanding of the issue after reading it.

You're a pretty smart person, but you failed to recognize that if the topic of your expertise has been so grossly misrepresented, what reason do you have to believe that the other topic has not been misrepresented in a similar fashion?

Did you just fall victim to a psychological fallacy? And if so, what is it called?

Thanks for your help -- it's on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't seem to remember!
gpt
I think you are thinking of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Basically you have to be competent at something before you can realize how incompetent you are at it. Somebody with a little bit of knowledge in something knows just enough to think they know about whatever it is, but not enough to know where they are lacking in understanding.

If you want to get stereotypical... think of like a sophomore psychology major. They know just enough about psychology to think they got it down when really they don't fully realize that there is so much more that they don't know.