“It’s pretty surprising that people become more confident they could carry out this highly specialised feat – while at the same time telling us they know that landing a plane requires a great deal of expertise,” says Jordan. While overconfidence has its benefits – for example, giving people a boost that helps them take on life’s challenges – it can also be detrimental when it puts lives in danger, says Kayla Jordan, also at the University of Waikato. The results suggest this applies to a “disturbing proportion of ordinary people”, she says. Garry says the findings suggest that people “tend to inflate their confidence about certain things” as a result of what she calls a “rapid illusion”, meaning they see images that make them believe they are capable of feats for which they have no skill. A video has captured the crash of MU5735, a Chinese domestic flight, revealing the plane went into an almost vertical dive as it plummeted to earth, killing 132 people, all on board. Trained pilots learn to land planes after hundreds of hours of training and education in physics, engineering and meteorology, she adds. They ranked the required skill level for landing a plane at an average of 4.4 out of 5, says Garry. The results were particularly surprising, the researchers say, given that the respondents in general were convinced that landing a plane requires a great deal of expertise. Find a video of airplane to use in your next project. Read more: Worrying about bad jet lag could actually make your jet lag worse Related Videos: plane flight flying aircraft aviation travel airport sky fly.
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