A recent survey found that 80 percent of high school students believed that they were above average on reading,writing,and math skills.Given that only 50 percent can be above average on any dimension,this is an example of the ________ bias.
A) hindsight
B) self-serving
C) confirmation
D) egocentric

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Self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute one's own successes to internal factors and one's own failures to external factors. In this case, the students are attributing their above-average performance to their own abilities, rather than to external factors such as the ease of the test or the teacher's grading.

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