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What does self-efficacy mean?

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Ability...: ...To evaluate one's own abilities. See: http://en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/dunning%e2%80%93kruger_effect there's more to it than that, of course, but dunning-kruger is a common failure of self-efficacy.

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