Listener (Rob) / same caller used twice

You suggested that one approach to improving dialogue with people with whom we disagree is to ask questions and be genuinely curious about their positions and how they arrived there.

As with those experiments where Phil Firmbach exposed the ignorance of those who felt they knew about public policy, how would we avoid making people feel like we're grilling them?

I'm sure some subjects in his experiments were chagrined to find out that they didn't really know as much as they thought.

Surely there are some tricks about asking questions without making others feel like it's an interrogation.

Could you offer any tips on that?

This episode seemed to correctly suggest that the majority of people fall on the overconfidence end of the spectrum.

I'd like to suggest that you might have a separate discussion about people on the other end of the spectrum, us poor souls who struggle every day with how little we understand the world.

This can be quite a burden to those of us who lack confidence about everything from physics to cooking.

Even some accomplished people, such as movie directors and actors, have struggled with self-confidence during their careers.

A discussion about this smaller group of people might be an interesting complement to your analysis of those who are

overconfident.