Re: Don't Confuse Arrogance with Chronic Correctness. -- sdw

From: Stephen D. Williams (sdw@lig.net)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 00:54:53 PST

Lorin Rivers wrote:
>
> I wish I could find a good link to an article I read last summer that
> took a position that confidence and accuracy were inversely
> proportional...

Pessimistic people are more accurate but optimistic people are more successful
by most measures. There is a PRI show with a number of psychologists that
make this point.

Confidence that comes from relevant experience is unlikely to have a negative
effect on accuracy, depending on how you define accuracy. If more experience
with a problem doesn't improve your ability to deal with it in the future, the
problem must be pretty random.

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sdw 

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