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MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the tendency to be more confident than correct; to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements?
A
Confirmation Bias
B
Belief Perserverance
C
Overconfidence
D
Representativeness Heuristic
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Overconfidence Bias is the tendency people have to be more confident in their own abilities, including making moral judgments, than objective facts would justify.

Detailed explanation-2: -The overconfidence effect is a well-established bias in which a person’s subjective confidence in his or her judgments is reliably greater than the objective accuracy of those judgments, especially when confidence is relatively high.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answers will vary but should include an understanding that overconfidence is the tendency to be more confident than correct-to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments.

Detailed explanation-4: -Overconfident combines the prefix over-, “too much, ” and confident, from the Latin confidentem, “firmly trusting or self-confident.” Definitions of overconfident. adjective. marked by excessive confidence.

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