Talk:Overconfidence effect

message: The human tendency to be more confident in one's behaviours, attributes and physical characteristics than one ought to be.
Assuming "bad" drivers have more of an emotional impact than "good" ones, shouldn't the statistic on driving take into account the Von Restorff effect?
Rāga man 05:07, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

message: The bias discussed in this article is precisely the same as is discussed in the article titled Lake Wobegon Effect (and which is known in at least some of the psychology literature as Superiority Bias, which would seem to be a better title for the article. I can't see at present a justification for having the two separate articles. MartinPoulter (talk) 18:07, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with another article? 

message: Someone has in the last few days removed a comment about overconfidence's relevance to politics (people overestimating their likelihood of being rich rather than poor, hence the potential for a bias against policies that favour the poor). The edit comment was "unreferenced statement that seemed to attempt to pathologise certain political viewpoints - highly inappropriate".
I'm not the author of that paragraph, and I think it belongs in another article anyway, but the "pathologise certain political viewpoints" comment is misguided and would prevent almost any discussion of bias. Bias is the norm in human psychology. It's not a pathology per se, so to claim there is a bias that favours a particular view is not to put that view down to pathology. One could probably find biases that favour of opposing viewpoints. Daniel Kahneman argued that biases favour military solutions That doesn't in itself mean that being in favour of war is pathological, although it does give us a reason to be particularly wary of arguments that claim to justify war.MartinPoulter (talk) 22:37, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe this statements hits on something pretty good. I see that among the 9/11 "truther" movement, that these people exhibit all of the negative aspects this article points out. More research ought to be done, of course, as mine's an opinion and nothing more. Coffee5binky (talk) 17:57, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Politics and overconfidence 

message: I stumbled across this very good article to make sure I remembered some details about the overconfidence bias. I noticed the quality scale rating of Start-class, which this article is clearly beyond. In fact, I believe it merits a B-class rating, but I did not have time to read the article thoroughly, check some references, etc., so I erred on the side of being conservative. If someone, particularly someone conversant with the literature on cognitive biases, were to upgrade this article to B-class, I would support you. :o) - Mark D Worthen PsyD 02:27, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quality Scale upgrade from 'Start' to 'C' 

message: Hi, since I see the article is being improved, I would suggest using DOIs. It's very easy to just input them in here and the citation is ready. See also Why use DOI?
A similar service exists for google books, here. Happy editing Ihaveacatonmydesk (talk) 10:49, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed Dunning 2005 and Plous 1993 don't have page numbers or chapter/section names. Ihaveacatonmydesk (talk) 17:30, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notes 

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*Reference : Lotito, Gianna & Maffioletti, Anna & Novarese, Marco, 2014. "Are better students really less overconfident? A preliminary test of different measures," POLIS Working Papers 177, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS.
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