Experiments show people overestimate their abilities after exposure to trivially informative content
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A team of researchers from the University of Waikato and the University of Otago, both in New Zealand and Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Canada, has found that people tend to overestimate their ability to perform a task after watching others do it. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the researchers describe experiments they conducted with volunteers regarding their ability to do a certain task.
