[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul and I had a small conversation backchannel about flawed metacognitions
and Paul raised the interesting point that there is evidence that people who
are poor at
something tend to underestimate their performance; whereas people who are good
at something
tend to overestimate.
IIRC, that wasn't quite my point. It was instead that people (in
general) tend to think that they're better than average at easy tasks
and worse than average at hard tasks. From the PSIPI article:
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Ask people how well they can ride a bicycle relative to others, and they
say they do quite well -- mostly dwelling on the fact that they have no
trouble riding a bike, but forgetting that other people have no
difficulty either. But ask them about their juggling ability, and the
describe themselves as worse than average -- neglecting again that
others are also poor jugglers.
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Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
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