| if you thing you are stupid and everyone else is just like you - more or less- you're being humble IMO. If you assume you're smarter than everybody else, you're being arrogant, if you assume everybody else is smarter than you, you're insecure. Assuming everyone is stupid is the same thing that assuming that everybody is smart. If everybody is smart, smart must be a common trait, nobody is special. Someone can still be smarter or less smart than you. But on average assuming we're all on the same level is not bad. Except if you assume that everyone is smart, people will think that they are the only one being really smart The bias works differently in the two cases: of course XKCD got this right (the XKCD guy is way smarter than me) https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sheeple.png |
