Social comparison
Risk & psychologyJudging your own results against those of people around you.
In plain terms
You hear about their winners and never their losers. The sample is guaranteed to be biased.
Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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Judging your own results against those of people around you.
You hear about their winners and never their losers. The sample is guaranteed to be biased.