Over Confidence


Over confidence is also called naïve realism. It is the belief that one’s subjective experience faithfully reflects objects and events out there in the world. Because as humans we have this tendency of being over confident, we need systematic research methods to verify our ideas. This is the rationale for emphasizing empirical verification in scientific research.

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