Ignore that comment. If you want, post whatever evidence you have of your ranking in your school, but don’t feel pressured to do so. Internally, to yourself, I’d recommend an outside view of this number—your ranking on various dimensions (intelligence, scholastic achievements, etc.) and what evidence you have to support or disconfirm those beliefs.
Top 5 percent is incredibly easy to believe on this site. But you should double-check often. You should also be aware that top few percent on one of these dimensions doesn’t make you particularly special by itself. There are roughly 15 million high-school students in the US alone, so 750,000 5-percenters.
Ignore that comment. If you want, post whatever evidence you have of your ranking in your school, but don’t feel pressured to do so. Internally, to yourself, I’d recommend an outside view of this number—your ranking on various dimensions (intelligence, scholastic achievements, etc.) and what evidence you have to support or disconfirm those beliefs.
Top 5 percent is incredibly easy to believe on this site. But you should double-check often. You should also be aware that top few percent on one of these dimensions doesn’t make you particularly special by itself. There are roughly 15 million high-school students in the US alone, so 750,000 5-percenters.
Seems good. I don’t really feel like add’l validation would be useful here, so I’m fine leaving the claim as-is.
Thanks for the general note about epistemic hygiene.