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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 305158" data-attributes="member: 649">Yeah, but the conclusions of the authors of the study are faulty (I discussed this study at some length with folks on another board). If you look at the charts at the end you'll see that almost everyone regardless of their actual ability rated themselves as slightly above average. Even people who were very good rated themselves as slightly above average. There is no correlation between how bad or good you actually are to how good you think you are. Fatally flawed interpretation of the test evidence. They even point how how fatally flawed it is and then dismiss the flaw for no reason.Additionally the first test was completely flawed: they used a few low-grade comedians to determine which jokes were actually funny? The most humorous joke they use as an example (based on their scale) would be considered incredibly offensive to people who are religious, making it impossible to rate how "funny" the joke is on any kind of objective scale.Sad study, meaningless results.And stunningly common in science, most especially in psychology.</blockquote>