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3 years ago

You fall prey to the overconfidence bias when you ______ your knowledge or expertise in a decision situation.

Social Studies

1 answer:

Yuki888 [10]3 years ago

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Answer:overestimate

Explanation:

The overconfidence effect occurs when our subjective confidence in our capability is beyond our objective performance. This means we overestimate our ability to do something in a way that we don't even consider other aspects that may bring setbacks in our performance.

This can also be seen in planning fallacy , when a person overstimate the time it will take them to complete a particular task.

Remember that time when you were told about the class test that would take place in 2 weeks but instead of studying early you decided to study two days before a class test because you believed you can do all the work in that short time.

This is the Overconfidence in your own ability.

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3 years ago

Heights of men on a baseball team have a bell-shaped distribution with a mean of 168 cmand a standard deviation of 6 cm.Using t

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b) 68%

Explanation:

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$\sigma$ = Standard deviation = 6 cm

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3 years ago

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1 year ago

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Although the contributions from 529 plan is not deductible, but the earnings from the 529 plan is federal tax free and when the money is taken out to pay the expenses for higher education in college, it will not be taxed.

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