Interesting Links for 30-11-2017

[andrewducker]

"It’s a Dead Issue”: Fantastic Beasts Director Defends Johnny Depp (tags: abuse johnnydepp movies harrypotter jkrowling ) Belief in our moral superiority is the most irrational self-enhancing bias of all (tags: bias morality psychology ) Here's the thing about "just joking." (tags: humour society psychology racism ) White men facing money

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[woodpijn]

That's very questionable methodology for deciding whether someone is "rationally" or "irrationally" rating themselves highly on a given trait. So if most of their self-ratings are average, and they rate themselves high on one trait, then that rating is "irrational", but if most of their self-ratings are "extreme", then a high self-rating is "rational"?

I'd expect there to be more people who are outliers on one trait than people who are outliers on several traits (if traits are independent then this has to be true; even if traits are not independent it still seems plausible). So if someone really is unusually high on one trait, it's at least as likely that they're average on other traits than that they're also extreme on other traits; so the former rating pattern may well be rational and the latter irrational. And I'd expect the most irrational people to rate themselves extremely highly on every trait (or perhaps extremely low on every trait, I guess).