Swimmer963 comments on Calibrate your self-assessments - Less Wrong

68 Post author: Yvain 09 October 2011 11:26PM

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Comment author: Swimmer963 11 October 2011 01:45:16PM 2 points [-]

My brother said to me a few days ago that "whenever I think I've done well, I've done terribly, and whenever I think I've done terribly, I've done well."

Comment author: Solvent 12 October 2011 06:11:23AM 0 points [-]

Hrmm. That one could be related to impostor syndrome, maybe. However, what this thread has really established is that people can have any possible combination of experiences with test results (always thinking you've done badly, always thinking you've done well, thinking the opposite of what actually happened, and actually being right.)