Overestimate

Distributions of ratings of research ethicality. Top panel: comparisons between oneself and researchers in one's field, n = 10,906. Bottom panel: comparisons between researchers in one's field and those in other fields, n = 10,816. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53450-0 The average researcher thinks they are better than their colleagues at following good research practice. They also think that their…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It may feel unforgivably rude to reject an invitation—even one to an event you would much prefer not to attend—but people often overestimate the social consequences of saying no, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. "I was once invited to an event that I absolutely did not want…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Vaitsa Giannoul, a social scientist with European University Cyprus, has looked into the question of which group or groups of people tend to overestimate their own level of intelligence. The study is published in the journal Brain and Behavior. Giannoul begins by noting that intelligence in humans…

Research shows that there are differences between perceptions and reality when it comes to many dieters eating habits. People trying to lose weight tended to overestimate how healthy their diet was, and their self-perceptions of how much their diet improved during the study were often inaccurate.According to a new study, adults who were making lifestyle changes to lose weight tended to overestimate how healthy their diet was.Additionally, self-perceptions of how much their diet improved over the course of the 12- month…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Places are not just physical, but also social. For instance, around the North Carolina campus where we met, we knew certain bars based on the students…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Attempts to build a more equitable and inclusive society has taken a step forward with the discovery of a "diversity illusion" by a team of researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU). Their findings clearly show that within a social setting most people significantly overestimate the presence of a minority—and this overestimation is made not only by the majority but also by the…

The shadings and percentages in the subplots are the fractions of land area that will experience a significant increase in rainfall (left) and runoff (right) in the unconstrained (blue) and constrained (red) projections. Credit: IAPClimate projections are critical for adaptation and mitigation planning. The output of the latest round of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, phase 6 (CMIP6) has been widely used in climate projections.However, a subset of CMIP6 models is “too hot” and the projected warming as a result…