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At the beginning of the school year, groups of college students were asked to predict a variety of their own social behaviors (e.g., calling their parents, voting in an election). The students reported being 84 percent confident in their self-predictions. What was the actual percentage of correct predictions?

71%, 84%, 100%, or 0%

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71%

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At the beginning of the school year, groups of college students were asked to predict a variety of their own social behaviors (e.g; calling their parents or voting in an election). The students reported being 84 percent confident in their self-predictions. They correctly predicted their own behavior only 71 percent of the time which is the considered as over confidence in human tendency.

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