When Paulhus and colleagues compared university students' self-reports of own
intelligence with actual intelligence test scores, they found that
a. students were moderately accurate.
b. self-reports were valid "proxies" for IQ scores.
c. others who knew the student were more accurate than the student.
d. the correlations did not exceed .30.
e. teachers of the students were more accurate than the students.
d.the correlations did not exceed .30.
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