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by Swizec 4070 days ago
Sidenote: that's why behavioral studies never ask "How often do you run" but instead "When was the last time you ran?", or even better "Describe the last time you X". People are terrible at assessing their general performance, but great at recalling semi-specific events.
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I was under the impression I was the only one. Now I know other people think “great at recalling semi-specific events”.

“Describe the last time you X” This makes me think of transderivational search, a simplistic definition is “thinking”.