The Difference Between Abstract Reasoning and Computer Programming

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Researchers found that students who thought it was an abstract reasoning test, m thought they did much better on it. The look and feel of the test literally changes based on how you think about what you've just experienced. This could be one of the mechanisms that's producig it not differences in actual talent, but differences in perceived talent which cause people to evaluate themselves differently.

Have you ever been confronted with the fact that you were in over your head, or that you had no idea what you were doing, or that you thought you were more skilled at something than you actually were? At its most extreme, this is called the Dunning-Kruger effect - the fact that it is very easy to be both unskilled and unaware, and in this episode we explore how it works and where you might expect to see it your own life.

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