Higher Social Classes Have an Exaggerated Belief That They Are More Capable
The paper that this article is discussing was published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. That&#x27;s interesting for two reasons. The first is that it&#x27;s a rather well regarded journal with a very high impact rate. The other is because it&#x27;s one of the journals that&#x27;s driving the ongoing replication crisis plaguing psychology. [1]<p>In particular the journal this was published in was found to have an overall replication rate of 23%. Another way of putting this is that if you assumed the exact opposite of everything you read that was published in that journal (e.g. - what they claim is statistically significant, is not actually significant) you&#x27;d be vastly more informed than a person who took what was published in the journal at face value.<p>Of course that does not mean that this study is &#x27;false&#x27;, but you should take it with the same degree of credulity that you&#x27;d take something published in a venue when you know 77% of what is published <i>is</i> false. I mention this largely because I think there&#x27;s a substantial degree of dissonance between the crisis in psychology and people continuing to take studies in psychology at face value. It&#x27;s illogical.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Replication_crisis#Psychology_replication_rates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Replication_crisis#Psychology_...</a>