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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago

I read about a scientific study where they had buckets of different weights but you couldn't tell the weight by looking at it.

They had people picking up the buckets and watching other people pick up buckets, then asked them to guess how much each bucket weighed.

People tended to overestimate the weight of their own buckets and underestimate the weight of other people's buckets.

I tried not to do that.