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Metacognition Part 2: The Dignity of Mistakes - Why Do Smart People Make Foolish Decisions?

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  1. Lee Seon-yeong, branch chief, explained in a column that even highly intelligent people can make wrong decisions due to bias, stressing the importance of metacognition.
  2. The column cited research by a team led by Professor Marcel Veenman of Leiden University, which found that IQ accounts for 25% and metacognition for 40% of academic performance decisions.
  3. The column presented metacognitive training methods, including the Socratic questioning method, the role of devil's advocate, and three records to keep after a mistake.

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Metacognition Part 2: The Dignity of Mistakes - Why Do Smart People Make Foolish Decisions?

Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): 메타인지2편 : 실수의 품격 – 왜 똑똑한 사람이 멍청한 결정을 할까?

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