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Actually, thinking more about the word use... it seems to me that among the multiple choice situations, there's a certain tendency in certain circles to use the word 'intelligence' when the answer is demonstrably correct, and the word 'rationality' when you couldn't properly demonstrate anything.
A collision of overconfidence with reality can yield either a reduction in overconfidence, or reduction in overconfidence's scope to answers that can't be checked...