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Results from an experiment I just found about inside vs outside view thinking (but haven't read the actual study, just the abstract: beware!)
Contrary to expectation, participants who assigned more importance to inside factors estimated longer completion times, and participants who gave greater weight to outside factors showed higher degrees of confidence in their estimates.
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