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I saw a study once that said they took a group of Americans students and a group of Japanese students and asked them if they were good at math. Something like 80% of Americans and 10% of Japanese said they were good at math, while the Japanese students destroyed the American kids in their test scores.
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Cognitive psychology is clearly not my area but we use "overconfidence bias" a lot in Behavioral Economics. I think the short summary of the overconfidence literature is that most people are overconfident and men are typically more overconfident than woman. Last edited by pelagius; 10-28-2008 at 03:51 PM. |
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Pornography and the BCS. Most other countries have one or the other but only America has the two poles of all evil!
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It's because we give trophies to losing little league teams.
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