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Episode 6: The Overconfidence Game

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

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The Confidence Code

This season is about experts, and this episode is about men. Men tend to overestimate their ability by something like 30%. It's not that theyre pretending they know more. They actually believe they are about 30 % better than they are. Now i am, of course, a man, and as a man, i might offer you with total confidence all kinds of theories about why we are the way we are.

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