"I didn’t even realize a kid was there." Park visitor endangers child with outrageous stunt near Grand Canyon: 'Visitors ...

Americans tell pollsters immigrants make up about a third of the population. In reality, it's less than half that much.

False consensus effects create a distorted view of social agreement. While we might expect growing awareness to reduce this ...

A new study by cognitive and computer scientists at the University of California, Irvine finds people generally overestimate the accuracy of large language model (LLM) outputs. But with some ...

For years, healthy older adults were advised by doctors to take a low-dose aspirin daily as a way to reduce the risk of heart ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a specific area. This tends to occur because a lack of self-awareness prevents them ...

Today, seatbelt use in the United States tops 90 percent. In 1983, only 14 percent of Americans wore seatbelts, due in part ...

Americans also overestimate the safety risks for women who have abortions, our poll shows. Most people think abortion is either "less safe" or "about as safe" for women as giving birth.

In a study published in 2018, researchers found that some ellipticals overestimate calories burned by as much as 130 calories per 30 minutes of exercise. To put that in perspective, if you ate an ...

The Met Office and BBC’s weather apps ‘overestimate the chance of rain’, according to research by Reading University. Dr Rob Thompson and PhD student Rosie Mammatt compared live weather ...