Cynicism makes an unpredictable world more predictable, Marcia Angell wrote in her book "Science on Trial" (W. W. Norton, 1996), and "offers the illusion of understanding".
On the other hand, knowledge of the references that crowd "Soigne Ta Droite" may only feed an illusion of understanding that the film's fragmented form labors to dispel.
Research published last year on this illusion of understanding shows how the effect might be used to convince others they are wrong.
I was looking from the outside in and doing much of what the media had already done by putting this tragedy into the big context, but that only gave the illusion of understanding.
In summary, connection diagrams 48 give a comforting illusion of understanding a system, but we should all be wary of taking these networks at face value.
In fact, a study by Ahopelto et al. (2011) indicated that students with a moderate initial understanding appeared resistant to learning, leading the investigators to interpret that "an illusion of understanding" may have come into play.
"It's dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control," General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward.
And the theory accords with social-science research on the "illusion of understanding", which shows that when people are first asked to explain their own conception of a phenomenon, they often recognise how fragmentary it is and become more open to alternative positions.But without this study, we are thrown back on the weight of previous research.
