Friend your first half is correct but is irrelevant to the back half. The scientific enterprise falls apart if we just hand-wave anything that agrees with us. For real dude, logically what's wrong with you.

Poorly constructed datasets don't get a pass just because they have popular results. All data deserves to be scrutinized.

Respectfully, what on earth is going on with the wording for those questions? Why would the first question be a polite request (question with "please") while the second is a startling command (demand with exclamation mark)? In what world is "Rate your [sensitive confession]!" an appropriate way, verbally, to elicit that data?

You took your one psych class which is more than enough to know that those things matter. If this were any sort of formal research project all your data would be tossed in the garbage, do not pass go do not collect $200, because you don't pass even the second most basic level of smell test (the first being that you didn't dox them, their entire families, and their dog).

Please do some reading on how to conduct surveys before doing any more.

Ironically enough, I'm neurotic as fuck but don't feel Imposter Syndrome. I have very average abilities and I don't pretend I'm any more skilled than that. Anyone that hires me is agreeing to take on a self-proclaimed mediocre worker, that's their fault!

Tbh I figure that a pre-requisite to Imposter Syndrome is some form of dishonesty, usually social posturing I'd guess. How else are people being fooled if you are not the one fooling them? It doesn't work if you say "Oh, no, it's just that they're wrong about me, making undue assumptions about my abilities etc." So, they're hedging their bets on you performing well, completely unfounded and detached from reality and any observable behaviors? Looks like we're all idiots, then, and you are no outlier.

If you're curious about something, try looking it up, preferably on Google Scholar or some other more empirically robust place than Google.

Why ask a random Redditor what their theory is? They probably know just as little as you do. Laypeople really aren't knowledgeable enough to have plausible and well-informed theories outside their realm of expertise. Meanwhile there are scientists working on these problems for their entire lives, and their writings can be found relatively quickly.

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