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The Barnum Effect
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The Barnum effect is the tendency to accept vague, broadly applicable personality descriptions as specifically accurate about oneself.
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Participants given identical generic profiles rate them as highly accurate descriptions of themselves.
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The Barnum effect is why an assessment feeling accurate is not evidence that it is.