This article was about whether people have clear insight to how their own minds work. For example a psychologist did an experiment where 128 people were asked to judge someone called "Jill." They were given some arrangement of facts about her such as: She has an attractive appearance, her academic credentials are good, etc. Then the participants were asked to rate her on a scale of 1-7 from these facts based on how much sympathy she would show towards others, if they liked her, and how flexible she was in solving problems.
Most of the participants misjudged Jill and thought that if she was "good looking" more people would be sympathetic to her, but it actually would have the opposite affect. They also thought that because she was in a car accident, it would make her more likable, when it actually made her less.
This proves that people are generally wrong in their "insight" and predicting what factors will effect someone's personality. Most people are actually wrong about themselves also because they know what they like, but often don't know who we're attracted to, how we solve problems, and where our ideas come from.
I think this article was okay, but the tests do seem a little shaky, so I wouldn't recommend this article.
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The test does seem a bit shaky... I know that I would personally have more sympathy toward someone who was in a car accidentt, and I can't imagine that the majority of people tested wouldn't. Doesn't seem totally credible?
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