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Thursday, 3 December 2009

Wikipedia Article of the Day

Posted on 11:51 by hony
Lake Wobegone Effect:
For driving skill, almost all of the US sample (93%) and 69% of the Swedish sample put themselves in the top 50%. For safety, 88% of the US group and 77% of the Swedish sample put themselves in the top 50%.

The lower someone’s IQ, the more likely he is to rate himself as more intelligent than those around him. Conversely, people with a high IQ, while better at appraising others' intelligence overall, are still likely to rate people of similar intelligence as themselves as having higher IQs.

The disparity between actual IQ and perceived IQ has also been noted between genders by British psychologist Adrian Fuhrman. Men are prone to overestimate their intelligence by around 5 points while women are likely to underestimate their IQ by a similar proportion.



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