Results from the 'how hot are you' survey are out! I asked people "rate how attractive you are on a 1-10 scale". Then I took photos of them and asked other people to assign them ratings. Here's how accurate people were. Note the difference between men and women. 1/ https://t.co/0GhfO9gTGM
Social scientists have long known that we tend to be overconfident when we evaluate ourselves. Here are some highlights of their findings: High school seniors: 70 percent report that they have “above average” leadership skills, compared with 2 percent “below average”; in the ability to get along with others, 25 percent rate themselves in the top 1
... See moreA researcher called Shen Zhang set out to test this. Zhang gave 110 female undergraduates and 72 male undergraduates 30 multiple-choice maths questions. Before the test, each of them was told that men do better at maths than women. In addition, some of the volunteers were then told to take the test under their real name, but others were to complete
... See more