delusion

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This makes them prone to cause the "black box delusion" effect.

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Quick take

(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of delusion gathered in one view.

noun

(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

noun

a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"

noun

the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for delusion.

noun

(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

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a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"

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the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

Example sentences

This makes them prone to cause the "black box delusion" effect.

This delusion buries not only the fact that we have made a deal with the devil, but also that the deal really sucks.

Each consecutive basket takes them further and further into the delusion that what they are seeing is not random.

Comparing myself to myself from 10 years ago, I sincerely think I'm more effective, but self-delusion may play a part in that.

To properly do science you must be absolutely sure that, whatever you have in mind, you will do it, no matter what, and that youre doing it right, to the point of almost self-delusion.

They are in no way superior to the internals of Windows 95 and are at best only perceived superior due to a different user experience peppered with a healthy dose of self-delusion, certainly not through stability or performance.

So regardless of abstraction layers, your app inevitably ends up designed for a single platformIt's a platform that succeeds only at exposing users with RAM-sized datasets to planetary scale problems, all the while charged handsomely for the privilege of the self-delusion that some edge was gained through all the suffering.