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18 Post author: Natha 13 November 2014 02:17AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 13 November 2014 03:28:15PM 1 point [-]

People have a lot of their stated beliefs for signaling purposes and don't use them for guiding their own actions. I think you might get different outcomes if you ask students to bet that they will achieve a certain mark. Actually paving to put money on the line will make student less willing to overpredict their own performance.