Bernard watched a brief video of Samantha being interviewed for a job. He reports his impression of Samantha and indicates he is not at all confident in his ratings of her. According to research, how accurate is Bernard's impression?
A) Bernard is probably right on target as accuracy is not related to confidence in judgments.
B) Bernard is probably not very accurate as he is not very confident about his impression of her.
C) Bernard is probably accurate given that people with low confidence in their impression underrate their performance.
D) Bernard's impression is probably as accurate as anyone else's regardless of their confidence level.
E) Bernard will lie and indicate he was not confident to be modest, so he's probably accurate.
Answer: B
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