People show 'blind insight' into decision making performance

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 04:31 in Psychology & Sociology

People can gauge the accuracy of their decisions, even if their decision making performance itself is no better than chance, according to a new study. In the study, people who showed chance-level decision making still reported greater confidence about decisions that turned out to be accurate and less confidence about decisions that turned out to be inaccurate.

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