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by nerfhammer 4593 days ago
No, people tend to think they are above average at any task they spend time on. That's a different cognitive bias.
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But my point, reinforced by the numbers I gave, is that there is overlap in the distributions between "how good I think I am" for those actually at the bottom and those actually at the top. There may well be other cognitive biases at play.