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Note: This article was originally published in Substack on 04 Oct. 202<\/em>4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Research:\u00a0The Lack Wobegon in China<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hot off the oven. (Hat tip to Lin Xuibin, Rodney Goodyear, Scott Miller, and Yang Ai for the collaboration<\/em>).
Who says that us Chinese therapists are immune self-assessment bias?

Key Graf:
– Despite cultural norms that value modesty, exhibit a self-assessment bias, Chinese psychotherapists rated themselves as more effective than their peers.
– The average self-rated effectiveness of the Chinese psychotherapists in the study was the 71.4th percentile, with 96% of respondents placing themselves at or above the 50th percentile.
– No significant relationship between years of clinical experience and self-rated effectiveness
– Our tendency to overestimate our effectiveness can hinder professional growth and limit the overall improvement of psychotherapy as a field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


How does self-assessment relate with actual client outcomes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what we found with therapists in the UK. We grouped them according to their aggregated client outcomes (5 years worth of clinical data), and compare with how they rated their own effectiveness:<\/p>\n\n\n

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1st Quartile = Highly effective therapists. 2nd and 3rd Quartile: Average therapists. Note: We did not have enough therapists in the 4th Quartile to do a fair comparison.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Notice how similar the self-assessment ratings between the highly effective therapists and average therapists are?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. \u00a0Web-Read:\u00a0Ignore Your Kids More Often<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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3. Web-Read:<\/strong>\u00a0Are We Living in a Parasite Culture?<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ted Gioia<\/a> books are amazing, and his Substack essays are brilliant. This is the <\/em>writer I pay to read each of his Substack post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gioia says,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nowadays, parasite businesses are the largest corporations in the world. Their technologies do many harmful things, but lately they have focused on serving up fake culture, leeching off the creativity of real human artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just take a look at the dominant digital platforms\u2014and consider how little they actually create. But the amount of leeching they do is really quite stunning, especially when compared with the dominant businesses of the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n