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>> you think you've got an okay grasp of a subject, you're probably in the 90th percentile somewhere. You may be in the 90th percentile if you have an okay gr
by blacksmythe 16y ago
>> you think you've got an okay grasp of a subject, you're probably in the 90th percentile somewhere.
You may be in the 90th percentile if you have an okay grasp of the subject. However, way more than 10% think they have an okay grasp of any subject (probably more than 90%).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
"80% of participants had evaluated themselves as being above the average driver."
- rcavezza 16y agoI'm usually the opposite. I highly doubt my abilities and usually forget that most other people don't have the same knowledge as I do. I first noticed this after graduating with a marketing degree, now I'm starting to notice this about software.
- wlievens 16y agoSmart people typically underestimate their skill while dumb people overestimate theirs. However, by acknowledging and discussing this, we're probably both thinking we're smart, so maybe we're overestimating ourselves and are really dumb. Or something like that.
- loewenskind 16y agoBut how does knowing about this phenomenon change it?