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Right, and then you could argue that people who actually think of themselves as "smart" will know of such experiments, and will thus rate themselves as "average
by kennon 19y ago
Right, and then you could argue that people who actually think of themselves as "smart" will know of such experiments, and will thus rate themselves as "average," knowing that such a label actually indicates that they really are smart.
So basically this kind of survey says very little at all.
- mixmax 19y agoThe parent link is actually referring to an established study in behavioral economics. It is extremely interesting to learn how the human mind is sometimes way off in relation to reality.