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I remember having some app for the Wii where they'd ask random questions each day, and you'd give your answer, along with what you believe is the mos common answer. I noticed that with a lot of questions, people would have done better guessing that everyone else agreed with them.
I faintly recall a study about finding wallets where participants predicted they would not steal money but that most people would. This is some evidence that people think they meet a higher moral standard than the community as a whole. But that seems somewhat contradictory to my previous assertion.
I'm suddenly concerned that I'm just generating Fake Explanations
This app is called the “Everybody Votes Channel” (at least in the US), and it is a free download (if you have a Wii).
It tracks your prediction accuracy and some other figures, and you can also view a breakdown of question responses (and prediction correctness) by region, gender and maybe some other attribute I've forgotten. The questions are generally trivia about personal habits or not-obscure-but-not-daily-knowledge facts.