Overconfidence and the Frailty of Knowledge

While self-confidence is a prized human attribute, too much confidence can be obnoxious, pernicious, and even deadly. This audience-participation skeptalk will present a simple 10-question quiz to measure an important aspect of individual self-confidence. With analysis and discussion of these measurements, audience members will be better able to calibrate properly their personal levels of self-confidence. The ultimate goal will be a "healthier skepticism" toward one's own depth of knowledge about the world.

This event is a joint production of the Bay Area Skeptics and Wonderfest, the Bay Area Beacon of Science.

The speakers are: Dr. Marilin Colon, CSU East Bay Lecturer in Psychology  *and*  Tucker Hiatt, Stanford Visiting Scholar & Wonderfest Founding Executive Director.