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What was corrected
What the page claimed
A quote attributed to Dr. Wim van der Linden with no verifiable source; a quote attributed to Dr. Justin Kruger asserting 'first instincts are correct more often than changes,' contradicting real research showing answer changes are more often corrections than mistakes; body text also repeated the same backwards claim citing Benjamin et al. (1984).
What was corrected
Both quotes de-attributed to unattributed prose. The Kruger quote's backwards claim corrected to state that changes are, on balance, more often corrections than mistakes, while preserving its valid nuance about anxiety-driven vs. knowledge-driven changes. The body text repeating the same backwards claim was also corrected for consistency.
Suggested change
De-attributed the van der Linden quote; de-attributed and corrected the Kruger quote's backwards research claim to align with the real research finding, while preserving its otherwise-valid nuance about anxiety-driven versus knowledge-driven answer changes.
Why this is better
De-attributed two unverified quotes and corrected a research claim that had the real finding backwards (changes are more often corrections, not mistakes), consistent with the well-documented answer-changing literature.
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