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-3 Post author: adamzerner 20 January 2014 07:29AM

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 20 January 2014 05:03:51PM 0 points [-]

I suspect the better someone's self assessment skills are the less likely they are to assume they are better than 90% of people (reduced succeptibility to Dunning Kruger etc.). So you would expect less rationalists to start start-ups due to reduced self delusion.