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Confidence

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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…