> instead showed that both experts and novices underestimate and overestimate their skills with the same frequency. “It’s just that experts do that over a narro

> instead showed that both experts and novices underestimate and overestimate their skills with the same frequency. “It’s just that experts do that over a narrower range,” he wrote to me. This makes sense, in the narrow definition they use for the effect, that is students estimating their exam score. It doesn’t necessarily disprove other interpretations that people are casually using, such as imposter syndrome, which are related but pedantically not the same effect.