demonstrated in a clever study just how prevalent and pervasive inflation bias is in self-assessments of ability. They asked applicants to rate their own abilities in real clerical tasks as well as in bogus tasks that sounded real but were nonsense. Three of the bogus tasks were “operating a matriculation machine,” “typing from audio-fortran report,” and “circumscribing general meeting registers.” The clerical applicants rated themselves high on the real tasks (where their ability was not verified) and also on the tasks that did not even exist! Beehr et al. (2001) reported that self-ratings of job performance were negativelycorrelated with the personnel selection test scores used to hire the employees into their jobs. Mount (1984) found that managers evaluated themselves more leniently compared with both how they evaluated their supervisors and how their supervisors evaluated them. Bernardin et al. (1998) suggested that the reason for this pertains to perceptions of factors beyond the control of the individual. When we are ourselves, we tend not to lower our own evaluations if we perceive that any shortcomings in our performance were beyond our control. When other people rate us, however, they tend to perceive us as being responsible for our performance.