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You can both be aware of the situation and delusional. Many people I’ve spoken to with tenure track aspirations genuinely believe they’re in the top 1% of thei
by MontyCarloHall 5y ago
You can both be aware of the situation and delusional.
Many people I’ve spoken to with tenure track aspirations genuinely believe they’re in the top 1% of their field, and thus have a good shot at making it. I’d wager that far more than 1% of graduate students/postdocs believe this about themselves. In general, the vast majority of people will rate themselves as above average for any given ability, even though that’s by definition impossible.
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- enriquto 5y ago> the vast majority of people will rate themselves as above average for any given ability, even though that’s by definition impossible. Not "by definition". It's easy to build a probability distribution such that an arbitrarily large majority of samples are above average (e.g. if it has a long tail to the left).
- MontyCarloHall 5y agoFine, I should have said “above the median,” if you insist on being so pedantic about it ;-)