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<blockquote data-quote="VoodooGroves" data-source="post: 243286" data-attributes="member: 5520">My wife, who is not a gamer but she has played one or two in the far, far past, read my submissions.The one she liked best and thought she'd pay for was of course the one all of my gamer friends thought was the least likely to succeed.That is what drove my multiple entries...she was very adamant about which she preferred as were the rest of them...since postage is cheap, I sent both in.&nbsp; Luckily for me, the odds of a decision from WoTC in my favor on either are slim, so I'm not going to have to deal with the choice between wife and friends issue one bit.On the topic of statistics and the like .... a few years ago (1999) the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published a study - <a href="http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html" target="_blank">link here</a> - called:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Unskilled and Unaware of It: How&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Incompetence Lead to Inflated&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Self-AssessmentsI'd like to think everyone that hit one of the high options on the poll was joking and not blatantly victim of this particular ... quirk.Anywho...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VoodooGroves, post: 243286, member: 5520"] My wife, who is not a gamer but she has played one or two in the far, far past, read my submissions. The one she liked best and thought she'd pay for was of course the one all of my gamer friends thought was the least likely to succeed. That is what drove my multiple entries...she was very adamant about which she preferred as were the rest of them...since postage is cheap, I sent both in. Luckily for me, the odds of a decision from WoTC in my favor on either are slim, so I'm not going to have to deal with the choice between wife and friends issue one bit. On the topic of statistics and the like .... a few years ago (1999) the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published a study - [URL=http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html]link here[/URL] - called: Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments I'd like to think everyone that hit one of the high options on the poll was joking and not blatantly victim of this particular ... quirk. Anywho... [/QUOTE]

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