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65% of Americans believe they are above average in intelligence: Results of two nationally representative surveys

Patrick R. Heck,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0819-3890

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Daniel J. Simons,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7545-1621

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Christopher F. Chabris

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: chabris@gmail.com

Affiliations Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA, United States of America, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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65% of Americans believe they are above average in intelligence: Results of two nationally representative surveys

Patrick R. Heck,
Daniel J. Simons,
Christopher F. Chabris

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Published: July 3, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200103

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12 Aug 2019
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Undersampling undermines results. A comment to Heck, Simons, & Chabris (2018) Posted by apinon on 12 Aug 2019 at 14:33 GMT
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The analysis seems to assume equivalence of "average person" and "average American" Posted by LJZigerell on 15 Aug 2018 at 02:55 GMT

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