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Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Are You Over Confident?

Study looked at what traits of a skill are predictive of people rating themselves as being over confident convent in that scale. Out of these hundred skills, the people tended to be over confident,. but there still were quite a few people underconfident. People report themselves being better than 71 out of a hundred people, at least tin ten pounds. A second one is whether people feel that the thing is something that is a matter of personal opinion.

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