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They didn't ask people for their evaluations before the test; they asked after the test, and after it had been scored, to see where people thought their score r
by lambda 10y ago
They didn't ask people for their evaluations before the test; they asked after the test, and after it had been scored, to see where people thought their score ranked relative to the rest of the people who had taken the test.
So, people already knew how many things they had gotten right and wrong when making their judgement. They just judged that most other people had also gotten a similar number wrong.
- forrestthewoods 10y agoThey can't possibly know the makeup of other test takers. I could be 95th percentile of the total population but still 10th percentile in a test room.