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This is what I've thought about too. Could the article's observations attributed to the friendship paradox? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox ht
by mistaken 9y ago
This is what I've thought about too. Could the article's observations attributed to the friendship paradox?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
- smallnamespace 9y agoPeople with impostor syndrome might find a lot of help in understanding the logic behind it, since it applies not just to friendship, but to any activity where visibility is positively correlated to ability. Most popular GitHub projects are by top coders. Most musicians are in a tiny fraction of the skill distribution. The people that one might respect and measures oneself by almost certainly are better than the average, so if one feels inferior to them, that is a statistical quirk and not a strong signal that one is below average.