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80% of people are delusionally optimistic


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So says this report...

 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=unflagging-optimism

 

EDIT: n=19 in this study, pretty small sample

Have you ever met Andrea Anderson?

 

If you could figure out my complex system for code names you would know that you have met her.

 

She is a pessimist and thinks that everyone else should be more like her. Occum's shaver strikes again.

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