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Sign in to saveIgnorance is a lack of knowledge, information and understanding. Deliberate ignorance is a culturally-induced phenomenon, the study of which is called agnotology.
Ignorance is simply the lack of knowledge, information, and understanding about something. It matters because sometimes this lack of knowledge is deliberately created or maintained by cultural forces—a phenomenon studied in a field called agnotology—which can have significant effects on individuals and society.
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Ignorance is a lack of knowledge, information and understanding. Deliberate ignorance is a culturally-induced phenomenon, the study of which is called agnotology.
The word "ignorant" is an adjective that describes a person in the state of being unaware, or even cognitive dissonance and other cognitive relation, and can describe individuals who are unaware of important information or facts. Ignorance can appear in three different types: factual ignorance (absence of knowledge of some fact), object ignorance (unacquaintance with some object), and technical ignorance (absence of knowledge of how to do something).