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> But the data of original D-K paper shows that the top 25% people underestimate their placings. So this whole paragraph, while logically true, has little to do with the original D-K effect.

That is what you would expect under my model, due to the randomness being limited upwards for the high placings but still go downwards. That is the effect the article we are talking about refers to when they say "Autocorrelation".



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