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  2. Overconfidence effect - Wikipedia

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    The overconfidence effect is a well-established bias in which a person's subjective confidence in their judgments is reliably greater than the objective accuracy of those judgments, especially when confidence is relatively high. [1] [2] Overconfidence is one example of a miscalibration of subjective probabilities.

  3. Illusory superiority - Wikipedia

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    The study suggests that the underlying cognitive mechanism is similar to the noisy mixing of memories that cause the conservatism bias or overconfidence: re-adjustment of estimates of our own performance after our own performance are adjusted differently than the re-adjustments regarding estimates of others' performances. Estimates of the ...

  4. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Overconfidence effect, a tendency to have excessive confidence in one's own answers to questions. For example, for certain types of questions, answers that people rate as "99% certain" turn out to be wrong 40% of the time.

  5. The Overconfidence Conversation - AOL

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    Overconfidence is a very serious problem, but you probably think it doesn't affect you. That's the tricky thing with overconfidence: The people who are most overconfident are the ones least likely ...

  6. 103 Times People Came Across Such Confidently Wrong ... - AOL

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    Overconfidence causes people to overestimate their abilities and knowledge, which are often far from reality. And we know there are few things that netizens like to do more than ridicule these ...

  7. Cognitive bias - Wikipedia

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    Overconfidence effect: Tendency to overly trust one's own capability to make correct decisions. People tended to overrate their abilities and skills as decision makers. [33] See also the Dunning–Kruger effect. Physical attractiveness stereotype: The tendency to assume people who are physically attractive also possess other desirable ...

  8. Confidence - Wikipedia

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    On the overconfidence effect, Martin Hilbert argues that confidence bias can be explained by a noisy conversion of objective evidence into subjective estimates, where noise is defined as the mixing of memories during the observing and remembering process. [44]

  9. Democrats warn against overconfidence amid Harris momentum - AOL

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    Democrats know they’re winning the presidential race right now. But they also know how quickly that could change. There could be a global crisis, an escalation in the already violent Middle East ...