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Why should being conservative in your confidence be rewarded above having an accurate assessment of your confidence?
by Jabbles 10y ago
Why should being conservative in your confidence be rewarded above having an accurate assessment of your confidence?
- Jtsummers 10y agoIn the case of an exam, students are under stress and pressure that will often lead them to underestimate themselves, especially knowing that if they're wrong that 100% probability will net them a -infinity score for the exam, even if they get everything else right. This also means questions have to be very carefully worded. I recall a number of exam questions (over many years of school, not one class in particular) where the "wrong" answers were arguably right depending on how the sentence was parsed just based on poor use of punctuation or other ambiguous wording.