[Psychology] Overconfidence - Page 6

On July 31 2009 09:32 lazz wrote:
10.

was pretty easy, just used wikipedia for most of em.

On July 31 2009 06:19 Djabanete wrote:


Haha, where did this one come from? I'm curious since the other answers you gave were all nice round numbers

edit: Maximum estimate = (minimum estimate x2) - 1? I'm so confused.

On July 31 2009 12:21 micronesia wrote:
The test does not measure what it was intended to measure. It would be interesting if it was more balanced (going on what Chill said in the first page).

On July 31 2009 12:43 SonuvBob wrote:

This thread definitely measures something, and the results sadden me.

On July 31 2009 13:07 Xusneb wrote:
This thread measures reading comprehension and a lot of people failed?

On July 31 2009 00:18 Boblion wrote:

0 and 0 lol

On July 31 2009 12:52 micronesia wrote:

Can you elaborate on what you mean? In the spirit of this thread I won't pretend I know what you are getting at.

edit: do you just mean that many people didn't understand what was expected of them when they should have?

edit2: like the way they would say "oh let me just use huge ranged and then I'll do really well on this quiz which proves I don't fit the negative stereotype..."

On July 31 2009 13:20 SonuvBob wrote:

Nah, they at least understood the idea behind it. I mean the ones who didn't grasp it at all (look at the poll results =/).

On July 31 2009 00:58 Chill wrote:
This is stupid because the answers in themselves are shocking. Sure you should account for that in your interval, but the test is pitted against you. If they were questions with reasonable answers in everyday things this would hold a lot more weight for me.

On July 31 2009 13:26 Xusneb wrote:
This is the most confusing thread I've ever stumbled upon.

How the hell am I supposed to assign a percentage value (quantitative) to my confidence (qualitative)? "Um... yea, this range feels 90%." I cannot reconcile this!