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[gwillen]

Is there a name for the fallacy of assuming, when one is in the dark, that everyone else actually knows what's going on? I don't mean this in a conspiracy sort of way; just a sort of implicit assumption that, when in doubt, other people have more complete knowledge than oneself.

As an example of this, consider real-time strategy games, i.e. Starcraft. I always inordinately fear what's going on in the part of the map that I can't see; obviously my opponent is building up a massive army and preparing to destroy me with it. (Note that this is typically not true.) But I fail to properly take account, in my own strategy, of the fact that my opponent cannot, in fact, see what I'm up to either, and may well fear that unknown; and that I should be using this to my advantage.

Does everyone do this? Is there a name for it?

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[rinku.livejournal.com]

i know exactly what you are talking about in sc: becoming a good sc player means working past that feeling. funny thing is: i was able to do that in one of my matchups (protoss vs terran) but not in my others (such as protoss vs zerg). it's as if i unconsciously don't fear terrans as much as a fear zerg. consequently, my win rate against those races is like 80-20 and 20-80, a very big difference.