Gender Differences in the Self-Assessment of Accuracy on Cognitive Tasks

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INSIGHTFUL OR WISHFUL: Lawyers' Ability to Predict Case Outcomes (2010, result): “These findings are in line with gender differences observed in research on metacognition (Pallier, 2003).”
CONFIDENCE AND COGNITIVE TEST PERFORMANCE (2007, background): “In this sample, the magnitude of the overconfidence bias for both men and women is somewhat lower than what was reported by Pallier (2003). Thus, Cohen’s d s for the bias scores presented in Table 12 are 0.”
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Work Education: Preparing Students for Practice Learning (2010, unknown): “Across a range of disciplines, there is a substantial body of research that indicates that male students have a tendency to overestimate their performance whilst female students are inclined to underrate their abilities in spite of either outperforming or being equal to males in relation to measurab”
Effects of Amount of Information on Judgment Accuracy and Confidence (2008, background): “Some individuals are more prone to overconfidence, with mixed evidence suggesting males are more so than the females (Barber & Odean, 2001; Lichtenstein & Fischhoff, 1981; Lundeberg, Fox, & Puncochar, 1994; Pallier, 2003; Soll & Klayman, 2004).”