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false consensus
You assume other people agree with your personal views.
Ross, Greene, and House (1977) found that participants who agreed to walk around with a 'Repent' sign believed approximately 63.5% of their peers would do the same.
Change 60% to 63.5%.
Your assumption of common ground is usually just a reflection of your own thoughts.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Ross, Greene, and House (1977)
- What the check found
- The study is a seminal work on the false consensus effect, but the statistic provided is a rounded approximation of the original data.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.