# Professor Justin Kruger's joint research on the "first-instinct fallacy" is featured

1 Faculty News May 9, 2019 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/32e4b22e-7197-11e9-bbfb-5c68069fbd15) -- "With his colleagues Derrick Wirtz and Dale Miller \[[Kruger](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/justin-kruger)\] replicated the longstanding findings that college students believe you should trust your first answer in a multiple choice question, and yet that switching to a second answer tends to improve your grades."

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