Stephanie Coontz: We like to appear in ways that are socially desirable. She says there's a form of social desirability by us where you don't want to look bad to yourself. So we might inflate our scores on something like ona scale from one to ten, how hard a worker are you? Now, how much of this is what' you called illusory superiority, whatever, the lake wobegon effect? Oh, yes, optimistic bias, teresa. How much of it is a legitimate poor assessment because we think we're better than we are? Iam kind of obsessed with this other reason, why, you know, are you a