A certain psychologist was looking for the cause of college failure. She took a group of former students who had flunked out and
a group that had received good grades. She gave both groups a self-esteem test and found the group that failed scored lower on the test than the college success group. She concluded that a low self-esteem person probably expects to fail and exhibits defeatist behavior in college-which eventually leads to his or her failure.
This examination doesn't not qualify as a "test", infers that confidence causes school disappointment without controlling an appropriate IV or arbitrary task. It needs inside legitimacy. Indeed, even inside this select gathering, we know nothing about the genuine reason for failing out.
There is no fleeting priority - we don't have the foggiest idea whether low confidence preceded failing out or if failing out preceded low confidence.
There is additionally the likelihood that the two factors are deceptively related- - extraordinary family stress may cause low confidence and may cause failing out, yet failing out and confidence may not so much offer any obvious causal connection with each other.
