According to the Research on Overconfidence

question 16

Multiple Choice

According to the research on overconfidence,

• A) overconfidence can be easily demonstrated in the laboratory, but not in real-world situations.
• B) politicians-like other people-are frequently overconfident.
• C) overconfidence is limited to decision making; it does not seem to apply to other cognitive tasks.
• D) overconfidence seems to apply to about 40% of the population; about 30% are accurate, and the remaining 30% are underconfident.

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Definitions:

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