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		forrestthewoods on June 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dunning-Kruger and other memes (2015) They can't possibly know the makeup of other test takers. I could be 95th percentile of the total population but still 10th percentile in a test room.

ggggtez on June 28, 2016 | [–]

Congrats you've discovered the other half of the Dunning Krueger effect. The smartest people in the test will assume others might know more than them, because they know enough to know they aren't experts.

tamana on June 28, 2016 | [–]

So?

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