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Re:State of JavaScript 2019 by DavidPP on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:46AM (#21834817)
I interviews interns from a school where they all ask their students to rates themselves like that.

At first I was put off, but now I interpret it as their own personal scale, with 5 being what they the best at, and not as "I know everything about this".

But even then, the best candidates are usually the ones who rated themselves the lowest.

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Re:State of JavaScript 2019 by irrational on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:19AM (#21835071)
That makes sense. The more I know about a topic, the more I know about how much I do not know. If I know a topic very well, I also know how very little I really do know, so I'd rate myself much lower.
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