What Is the Tardigrade Effect?
A random thought emerged today. Is there a cognitive bias, similar to the Dunning—Krueger effect, but for degrees of weirdness? I couldn’t find any, so I decided to coin one. Behold, the Tardigrade Effect. The Tardigrade Effect A cognitive bias in which the weirdness of a subject is inversely proportional to the observer’s knowledge of the subject. The more one knows about a subject, the weirder it seems. The less one knows about a subject, the less weird it seems....
