Not confident, but high grades.
The Intellectual Production of Engineers, p. 87
https://gyazo.com/a49465efb366068b5c579dc454149106
The group with the least confidence (in oneself) had the highest performance
Figure Testing lowers confidence and increases the percentage of correct answers.
Subjective "Confidence in understanding" does not correctly reflect actual [understanding
nishio.iconsays "Understanding is a hypothesis" refers to this
Need to verify by testing
Karpicke, J. D. and Blunt, J. R. (2011). "Retrieval practice produces more learning than elaborative studying with concept mapping". Science, 331(6018), 772-775.
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