Which of the following seems more likely? A person fails to read a question verbatim. A person who has been the "smartest person in the room" for decades has

Which of the following seems more likely? A person fails to read a question verbatim. A person who has been the "smartest person in the room" for decades has an inflated view of his fluency on a topic and makes mistakes in his favor when he tries to reconstruct the questions from memory.