Illusory superiority (redirect from Better-than-average effect)
better-than-average effect was observed when it was suggested to participants that they would be successful, but also a worse-than-average effect was found...
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The worse-than-average effect or below-average effect is the human tendency to underestimate one's achievements and capabilities in relation to others...
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Restorff effect Wagon-wheel effect Well travelled road effect Werther effect Westermarck effect Word frequency effect Word superiority effect Worse-than-average...
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List of cognitive biases (redirect from Continued influence effect)
"Lake Wobegon effect", "better-than-average effect", or "superiority bias".) Naïve cynicism, expecting more egocentric bias in others than in oneself. Naïve...
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List of effects (redirect from Effect (causality))
superiority effect (cognitive science) Worse-than-average effect (cognitive biases) (psychological theories) (social psychology) Xenia effect (agriculture)...
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(better-than-average effect) and worse-than-average effect, subadditivity effect, exaggerated expectation, overconfidence, and the hard–easy effect. People...
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bicycle but below average on difficult tasks like riding a unicycle. In 2007 Moore named the latter effect the "worse-than-average effect". In general, people...
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Self-enhancement (section Above-average effect)
side of caution and display a worse-than-average effect. The majority of people would rate themselves as below average in unicycling ability, for example...
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The average treatment effect (ATE) is a measure used to compare treatments (or interventions) in randomized experiments, evaluation of policy interventions...
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difficult questions. "Hard tasks tend to produce overconfidence but worse-than-average perceptions," reported Katherine A. Burson, Richard P. Larrick, and...
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Worldline Worldview Worse-than-average effect Writing Sampler Writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero Wrong Wrong direction Wronger than wrong Wú (negative)...
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For Better or For Worse is a Canadian comic strip by Lynn Johnston that ran originally from 1979 to 2008 chronicling the lives of the Patterson family...
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and low expectations lead to worse, both effects leading to self-fulfilling prophecy. According to the Pygmalion effect, the targets of the expectations...
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The frog pond effect is the theory that individuals evaluate themselves as worse than they actually are when in a group of higher-performing individuals...
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an average 14-year-old dropped by more than two points over the period. For the upper half of the results, the performance was even worse. Average IQ...
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players performed worse by about 0.3 strokes on average. Yet another research, published by Brian C. Hill in 2014, examines the same effect in 100-meter tournaments...
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would be worse parents than both averagely-attractive and unattractive individuals. A study by Landy & Sigall (1974) demonstrated the Halo Effect, looking...
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the Baumol effect in a variety of ways, including: Cost and price disease: Prices in stagnant industries tend to grow faster than average Stagnant output:...
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Regression toward the mean (redirect from Regression effect)
average or below average scores. Therefore, a student who was lucky and over-performed their ability on the first test is more likely to have a worse...
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[average] condition has...?" and rated as: Very much improved Much improved Minimally improved No change Minimally worse Much worse Very much worse The...
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overconfidence effect is a well-established bias in which a person's subjective confidence in their judgments is reliably greater than the objective accuracy...
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IQ classification (redirect from Average intellegence)
test-taker a higher IQ score than the test-taker's performance justifies. On the other hand, some test-givers err by showing a "halo effect", with low-IQ individuals...
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Urban heat island (redirect from Urban heat island effect)
(UHI) effect, that is, they are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas. The temperature difference is usually larger at night than during...
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very tall parents would move toward the average. In fact, in any situation where two variables are less than perfectly correlated, an exceptional score...
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False memory (redirect from Mandela Effect)
(6%), people need support (6%), no harm would be done (6%), and it's no worse than alternatives (5%). Several possible benefits associated with false memory...
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Simpson's paradox (redirect from Yule-Simpson effect)
group of patients with large stones using treatment A (group 3) does worse than the group with small stones, even if the latter used the inferior treatment...
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Assimilation and contrast effects (redirect from Assimilation Effect)
everyone else scores around 90%, the grade might seem worse due to contrast, but if the class average is 70%, the same 85% might feel more impressive because...
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Hangover (redirect from Hangover effect)
contribute to hangover symptoms or make a hangover worse. For example, congeners are compounds, other than ethyl alcohol, that are produced during fermentation...
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influencing this effect. In summary, even with a less immersive setup, there was still a location-updating effect. Memory performance was worse after a change...
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minority of the United States, generally perform worse in the educational system and in intelligence tests than the majority groups or less disadvantaged minorities...
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