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43 Post author: XiXiDu 23 November 2014 06:25PM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 24 November 2014 01:46:42AM 11 points [-]

But that's exactly what the Dunning-Kruger effect would lead us to expect a highly-competent CEOs to say!

No. It would lead us to expect that the top quartile would rank themselves well above the median but below their actual scores.

(And then to ask why we're thinking in such coarse granularity as quartiles.)