We treat confidence as an honest signal of a person’s professional skill, accurate memory, or expert knowledge. But…the confidence that people project, whether they are diagnosing a patient, making decisions about foreign, policy, or testifying in court, is all too often an illusion." Please answer the following questions: Do you think that the above statement is valid or not? Explain your answer. Explain how you would apply the illusion of confidence to a situation in your own life? in other words would knowing that experts are sometimes overconfident when they should not be helpful for you in knowing who to trust?

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We treat confidence as an honest signal of a person’s professional skill, accurate memory, or expert knowledge. But…the confidence that people project, whether they are diagnosing a patient, making decisions about foreign, policy, or testifying in court, is all too often an illusion."

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Do you think that the above statement is valid or not? Explain your answer.

Explain how you would apply the illusion of confidence to a situation in your own life? in other words would knowing that experts are sometimes overconfident when they should not be helpful for you in knowing who to trust?

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