Hard–easy effect
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title:
Hard–easy effect
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The hard–easy effect is a cognitive bias that manifests itself as a tendency to overestimate the probability of one's success at a task perceived as hard, and to underestimate the likelihood of one's success at a task perceived as easy. The hard-easy effect takes place, for example, when individuals exhibit a degree of underconfidence in answering relatively easy questions and a degree of overconfidence in answering relatively difficult questions. "Hard tasks tend to produce overconfidence but
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Cognitive bias relating to mis-estimating success based on perceived difficulty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%E2%80%93easy_effect
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2023-04-18T11:16:03Z
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