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Episode 6: The Overconfidence Game

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

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The Joy of Over Confidence

The joy of over confidence. It encourages men to become impostors. It drags women with actual knowledge into impostor sindrome. And so the obvious question is, why does this happen? Before you or i answer that question, let's describe one final science experiment done a few years ago by an american psychologist named zack astes. He sat a group of men and women and gave them a er spacial awareness test. On the test where the women have to answer the questions, they do just as well as the men.

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