One study asked college students to predict the likelihood of experiencing different personal life events. The researchers found that students' accuracy in making predictions was unrelated to how certain they were about their predictions. This is an example of
A)overconfidence
B)the belief bias
C)framing
D)the availability heuristic

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This is an example of overconfidence, where individuals overestimate their ability to predict the outcomes of future events accurately, regardless of their actual accuracy or certainty in those predictions.

One Study Asked College Students to Predict the Likelihood of Experiencing