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Like the experiment that shows that most people consider themselves to be above average?

smarter people are probably more likeley to say "average" as they are more likely to know their limits, while clueless people don't know their limit, hence they think they are better than everybody else.

Kinda odd, like that experiment where good students rated themselves as average, while crappy students rated themselves as better.

Right, and then you could argue that people who actually think of themselves as "smart" will know of such experiments, and will thus rate themselves as "average," knowing that such a label actually indicates that they really are smart.

So basically this kind of survey says very little at all.

The parent link is actually referring to an established study in behavioral economics. It is extremely interesting to learn how the human mind is sometimes way off in relation to reality.

Just a thought. Couldn't a user that is below average who thinks he is above average take this fact as a cue to vote as average to show that he is above average? Wouldn't it then skew the above-average-average-voters downwards?

Yes, well, it could have been like that, but "exactly average" has taken the lead...

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