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Competence

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You consistently believe you are more capable than you are.
While researchers have found that individuals often rate themselves as above average in various domains, the 1977 stud…
You overestimate your ability on tasks you find difficult.
The hard-easy effect describes the tendency to overestimate one's own performance on hard tasks and underestimate it o…
You are not as good a driver as you think.
Svenson (1981) found that 93% of the U.S. student sample believed they were in the top 50% of driving skill.…