The claim that individuals believe themselves to be better drivers than average is one of the common pieces of evidence used to show the effect of overconfidence bias. The BPS Research Digest reports that the experimental method of these results may be slightly flawed.
Instead of asking students to compare themselves to the overall group (or [...]
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Individual over group bias
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