For example, I thought I failed my AP exam, but I got a 5. How does that work? I know it’s pretty widely known that, if you think you failed, you probably passed.
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Reverse Dunning Krueger effect.
If you didn’t study, you don’t even know that your answers were horrible.
If you studied “too much” you are very aware that you didn’t quote this correctly, that there were 5 emperors but you could only remember 3, that there was a really long and complicated chain of reasoning and you could not replicate it, you just stumbled from one point to another with really flimsy connections (compared to the book).
So you feel like you failed every question when really you just answered them not quite as elegantly in 50 minutes as the guy who took 8 months to write a book about it.
Which is more than your teacher would ask for.
Whereas someone who didn’t study doesn’t even realize when he gets a name wrong, or misses 2 steps of mitosis or whatever.
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