On average, humans are pretty good at assessing each others’ characters, but those who aren’t still tend to think they are.
On average, humans are pretty good at assessing each others’ characters, but those who aren’t still tend to think they are.
Most people won’t admit it, but we size up other people’s characters all the time. In fact, research suggests that it takes just 30 seconds to make up our minds about someone’s intelligence and personality (we make other assessments even faster) and that these evaluations are surprisingly accurate.
