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Compared to other profs. From his homepage: "First I am interested in why people tend to have overly favorable and objectively indefensible views of their own

Compared to other profs. From his homepage: "First I am interested in why people tend to have overly favorable and objectively indefensible views of their own abilities, talents, and moral character. For example, a full 94% of college professors state that they do "above average" work, although it is statistically impossible for virtually everybody to be above average." http://www.psych.cornell.edu/people/Faculty/dad6 http://www.psych.cornell.edu/people/Faculty/dad6

anamax 18y ago
-1000, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100 average of entries 0, 10 of 11 entries above average I'll bet that the typical college prof believes that a small fraction of her "peers" rate -1000 or worse.
- gwc 18y ago
  "above average" in this context usually means median, not mean - i.e. "in the top 50%"