Better-Than-Average Estimates of Critical Thinking Dispositions Bias Scores on Dispositional Measures

We tested whether better-than-average estimates of the self-possession of critical thinking dispositions predicted scores on self-report measures of people’s dispositions. When students judged themselves as better than the average student on three different critical thinking dispositions, these better-than-average bias scores positively predicted scores on multi-item scales, measuring those respective dispositions.