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The contribution of judgment scale to the unskilled-and-unaware phenomenon: How evaluating others can exaggerate over- (and under-) confidence.

The unskilled-and-unaware phenomenon occurs when low performers tend to overestimate their performance on a task, whereas high performers judge their performance more accurately (and sometimes underestimate it). In previous research, this phenomenon has been observed for a variety of cognitive tasks...

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Published in:Memory & Cognition Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 164 - 174
Main Authors: Hartwig, Marissa, Dunlosky, John
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Jan2014
Subjects:
Midwest (U.S.)
Cognition
College students
Confidence
Judgment (Psychology)
Memory
Research funding
Statistical sampling
Test-taking skills
Descriptive statistics
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