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The original study was of 65 undergrad psychologists at Cornell who got extra credit for participation. Probably a relatively narrow pool of personalities even in that region of the US.

Anyone know of replications with a wider pool?



In this study [1] the experiments were replicated in Hong Kong with 4034 high school students and in US with 95 students.

[1] "Why Do People Overestimate or Underestimate Their Abilities? A Cross-Culturally Valid Model of Cognitive and Motivational Processes in Self-Assessment Biases" http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022022116661243 (paywalled)


here's the article, for scientific purposes:

https://file.io/41t2Gv


Excellent, thanks.




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