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Why so? > But the harder we make a task the more we push that perceived ability line down. That's only true if people misperceive how hard the task is across
by alisonkisk 6y ago
Why so?
> But the harder we make a task the more we push that perceived ability line down.
That's only true if people misperceive how hard the task is across the population. Or if the measurement is trivialized because the distribution of actual performance is ovwrwhelemedr by noise.
- JamesBarney 6y agoThe third section of the article titled "3. The instrumental role of task difficulty." goes into how "people misperceive how hard the task is across the population" based on task difficulty, and quotes a good amount of research that shows this is true. It seems pretty intuitive why people would use task difficulty as a heuristic for relative performance.