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> Really most of what people think is D-K is just statistics analogous to reversion to the mean: people assume they are typical, so less-skilled people naturally guess they are better, and higher-skilled guess they are less.

If it were just that, people would rate themselves closer to the median than they actually are, but D-K found the people rated themselves closer to the 70th percentile than they are.



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