does the availability of information compound that effect to a level where it is exponentially consequential?
Could you, please, debuzzwordify your question and add some meaning to it?
I'll try to be more clear. No promises.
Let's assume there is a social comparison element to self-esteem. Whether it be strength, intelligence, tennis ability, driving skills, beauty—People reference where they stand in any given dimension among the total population to gauge how they feel about themselves.
If you are in the 99th percentile of a good trait based on the portion of the population you're aware of, you generally feel good about identifying with that. Given awareness of a large enough population, you might fall from 99th to the 50th percentile. O...
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