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James Thornton's Theory-of-the-Week, December 30, 2001:
The general tendency to overestimate one's similarity to others on attitudes, behaviors, and personality traits.
Unlike their unskilled counterparts, the most able subjects are likely to underestimate their own competence. Researchers attribute this to the fact that, in the absence of information about how others are doing, highly competent subjects assume that others are performing as well as they are.
Ross, L., Greene, D. & House, P. (1977). The false consensus effect: An egocentric bias in social perception and attributional processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 13, 279-301.
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Plato
According to Plato, in the Apology...When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking, that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and still wiser by himself; and thereupon I tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me. So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well,although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know. In this latter particular then, I seem to have slightly the advantage of him.
-- Tapiwa Sibanda , March 18, 2002
How Difficulties in Recognizing One'sOwn Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
-- James Thornton
Among the Inept, Researchers Discover, Ignorance Is Bliss
There are many incompetent people in the world. Dr. David A. Dunning is haunted by the fear he might be one of them. Dr. Dunning, a professor of psychology at Cornell, worries about this because, according to his research, most incompetent people do not know that they are incompetent.
-- James Thornton
Do some people see the world in a fundamentally different way?
Discussion thread in "Ask Philip" (Philip Greenspun).
-- James Thornton
