@Raccoon Thank you for your thoughful answers.I did not assume bad faith and still do not see bad faith.

@estelle @psychology Minor point: the literature on “depressive realism” is fundamentally flawed, because the literature supposedly showing “optimism bias” in the first place is fundamentally flawed, seehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010028516301177