At 07:29 -0500 2/10/01, GBurch1@aol.com wrote:
>People
>(especially those most in need of it) are sometimes poor judges of their own
>capabilities. Remember that recent study that showed that less intelligent
>people tended to consistently over-estimate their intelligence, while more
>intelligent people had the reverse characteristic?
In a ticket-elimination driving class that I took a couple of years
ago, they told us that on a survey, 85% of the applicants felt that
they were "above average drivers".
Regards,
Chris Russo
-- "If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm." -- Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS, VI, 21
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