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helm t1_j83dudk wrote

Reply to comment by Thoughtless_winter in Training does not improve clinical psychology students’ mentalization abilities, study finds by lolfuys

The study is entirely based on "self reported" skills. I have no idea how that is supposed to be an objective measure of metallization. For example. Psychology students think they are hot shit, then train for some years, but reportedly "don't think they have better mentalization", that is, they don't report being better.

But the effect could simply be that they overestimated their abilities as freshmen, and their studies made them aware that the world is more complex than they thought. Thus humbling them.

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rogueblades t1_j84oeku wrote

Perception studies do have some amount of value even if the notion of “measuring perception” is inherently imperfect. Sometimes perception studies can reveal interesting gaps between perception and reality. Of course, your observations are things that researchers would consider, And they do complicate the findings of perception studies.

I had an old sociology professor many years ago who was fond of saying “A problem is a problem whether real or perceived“

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thisimpetus t1_j874yy6 wrote

Because unless you can demonstrate that a higher percentage of over-estimators specifically become psychologists the probability is an equal number of under-estimators exist. They balance out in the statistical wash.

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