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To: RepublitarianRoger2

People have done studies that have shown people who can’t do things or know subjects well, tend to overestimate their abilities (like the duffer on the golf course who lowers his handicap) while experts in their field tend to downplay or underestiamte what they can do.


26 posted on 10/17/2009 12:11:00 AM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: LukeL

Does that mean I’m really very, very good at everythig I think I can’t do?


27 posted on 10/17/2009 12:14:56 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: LukeL

Like type, for instance?


29 posted on 10/17/2009 12:16:48 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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