One study asked college students to predict the likelihood of experiencing different personal life events. The researchers found that students' accuracy in making predictions was unrelated to how certain they were about their predictions. This is an example of:

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This is an example of overconfidence, where individuals' confidence in their predictions does not correlate with the actual accuracy of those predictions.

One Study Asked College Students to Predict the Likelihood of Experiencing