one study has found that certain genes affecting personality may influence the income of self-employed people. some people may be able to use "an innate ability" or quasi-statistical sense to gauge public opinion and market demand for new products or services. entrepreneurs tend to have the ability to see unmet market needs and underserved markets. while some entrepreneurs assume they can sense and figure out what others are thinking, the mass media plays a crucial role in shaping views and demand. ramoglou argues that entrepreneurs are not that distinctive and that it is essentially poor conceptualizations of "non-entrepreneurs" that maintain laudatory portraits of "entrepreneurs" as exceptional innovators or leaders entrepreneurs are often overconfident, exhibit illusion of control, when they are opening/expanding business or new products/services.