Publish at April 07 2021 Updated April 17 2024
It's hard to measure the gap between what we think is true and what is true. This is even more pronounced when it comes to ourselves. This gap, between our self-assessment of our skills and our actual skills, is at the heart of the work presented in this article by Ludivine Jamain, who investigated the biases of students' self-assessment of their skills in French and Mathematics.
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