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  2. Overconfidence effect - Wikipedia

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    One manifestation of the overconfidence effect is the tendency to overestimate one's standing on a dimension of judgment or performance. This subsection of overconfidence focuses on the certainty one feels in their own ability, performance, level of control, or chance of success.

  3. Illusory superiority - Wikipedia

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    It was found that when the participant was further removed from the interview situation (in the tape observation and transcript conditions) the effect of illusory superiority was found to be greater. Researchers asserted that these findings suggest that the effect of illusory superiority is reduced by two main factors—individuation of the ...

  4. Shared decision-making in medicine - Wikipedia

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    A qualitative study found that barriers to SDM may include a patient's desire to avoid participation from lack of perceived control over the situation, a medical professional's inability to make an emotional connection with the patient, an interaction with an overconfident and overly-assertive medical professional, and general structural ...

  5. 'Extremely dangerous': Feds urge against using select fire ...

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    Two of the reported injuries left third degree burns to more than 40% of victims’ bodies, the CPSC reported, and "at least six incidents have involved surgery, prolonged medical treatment ...

  6. Is CDC overconfident in proclaiming no autism risk from ... - AOL

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    The legal definition of “causation” means “causes or contributes to cause.” The message the CDC is sending is that parents should freely vaccinate, because vaccines do not contribute in ...

  7. Hard–easy effect - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, people are overconfident about their ability to answer questions that are deemed to be hard but underconfident on questions that are considered easy. [ 2 ] In a study reported in 1997, William M. Goldstein and Robin M. Hogarth gave an experimental group a questionnaire containing general-knowledge questions such as "Who was born first ...

  8. Holding your pee can have dangerous health risks, experts say

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    For the average healthy person, however, holding your pee for up to a few hours a few times a week isn’t likely to cause harm, experts said. But if regularly ignoring your urge to pee goes on ...

  9. Causal closure - Wikipedia

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    Weaker forms of physical causal closure are synonymous with the causal completeness, [6] the notion that "Every physical effect that has a sufficient cause has a sufficient physical cause." [ 5 ] That is, weaker forms allow that in addition to physical causes, there may be other kinds of causes for physical events.