The Breakfast Club The Illusion (Illusion of Asymmetric Insight)
Studies have shown that individuals (and groups) significantly
overestimate what they know about other people (or other
groups). This is a subject that, if we’re honest with ourselves,
is more prevalent than we’d like to believe, and helps add some
depth to the concept of in-group/out-group bias. The illusion of
asymmetric insight makes it seem as though you know everyone
else far better than they know you, and not only that, but you
know them better than they know themselves. You believe the same
thing about groups of which you are a member. As a whole, your
group understands outsiders better than outsiders understand
your group, and you understand the group better than its members
know the group to which they belong.