gwern comments on Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 2 of 3) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 06 May 2012 11:34:21PM 0 points [-]

This could be a form of bias (name, anyone?) though, much like people who have had alcohol will say they drive more carefully and thus aren't more dangerous, when in fact, they are.

Actually, sleep deprivation is known to damage self-assessment (case I'm thinking of was in a study inducing chronic sleep deficits); not sure if this has a name.