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The article seems to be catching overconfidence (a human bias) as opposed to BS (a disregard for truth). Or am I missing it?
by mathattack 7y ago
The article seems to be catching overconfidence (a human bias) as opposed to BS (a disregard for truth). Or am I missing it?
- cm2012 7y agoI mean, if you say you know a made up branch of math very well - isn't that BS? That's what the researchers tested (they asked students to rate themselves in 16 branches of mathematics, 3 were completely made up)