timtyler comments on The Sin of Underconfidence - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 April 2009 06:30AM

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Comment author: timtyler 20 April 2009 07:45:41PM 0 points [-]

For underconfidence and depression, see:

"Depressive cognition: a test of depressive realism versus negativity using general knowledge questions." on PubMed.

Underconfidence in visual perceptual judgments:

"The role of individual differences in the accuracy of confidence judgments." on PubMed.

More on that, see:

"Realism of confidence in sensory discrimination." on PubMed.