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People in the U.S. Think They are Better Than They Actually Are. People in Asia Don't
How competent are you, compared with your colleagues?When psychologists approach teams of coworkers with variations of this question, an interesting pattern emerges.If people have a truly realistic perspective of their abilities, then their self-assessments should generally fall around the middle.Instead psychologists have repeatedly found that people's self-assessments are inflated.