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Everything on this site about confidence — each one naming the study behind it.
- You fix mistakes faster when you feel certain.Participants were more likely to correct an error if they were 'highly confident' that the wrong answer was actually c…
- Your certainty in your beliefs outweighs their actual accuracy.Research by Fischhoff, Slovic, and Lichtenstein (1977) demonstrates that individuals consistently demonstrate overconf…
- You are most confident when you know the least.The 1999 study found that individuals performing in the lowest quartiles of certain tasks significantly overestimate t…