Question

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%

Answer 1

71%

Step-by-step explanation:

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.