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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
But there definitly does seem to be a pretty strong correlation between between talking about how good someone is at driving/how bad everyone else is/how they are safer speeding than doing the speed limit, and stories about how other crappy drivers almost caused accidents that could only be avoided by the story teller's smart thinking/keen driving skills.
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This is called the Dunning-Kruger effect, and its been observed and measured.
In essence, people with weaker skills in a given task are more likely to overrated their ability, while those with superior skill are more likely to underrate their ability. The interesting part is that the worse you actually are, the more highly you tend to overrate.
I too drive lots for my job, a minimum of 2x what a normal 9-5'er does, and often 3x in a day. I certainly don't see or experience the number of near misses of the more "advanced" drivers here either.