The illusion of validity occurs when people overestimate the quality of their judgments.
The limited quality of human judgments was established in the 1950s based on research by Paul Meehl at the University of Minnesota.
Reference
Meehl, P. E. (2013). Clinical versus statistical prediction: A theoretical analysis and a review of the evidence. Brattleboro, VT: Echo Point Books. AMAZON
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