False consensus

Quality:

False-consensus effect - attributional type of cognitive bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their own opinions, beliefs, preferences, values, and habits are normal and typical of those of others. Article “False consensus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “False consensus”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 384 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 14 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 841 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #171 in February 2010
• Global: #8031 in February 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8054 in February 2014
• Global: #95376 in November 2016

There are 24 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) False consensus effect		57.2716
2	Basque (eu) Kontsentsu faltsuaren efektua		51.4609
3	Catalan (ca) Efecte del fals consens		49.4544
4	Ukrainian (uk) Ефект хибного консенсусу		41.2587
5	Portuguese (pt) Efeito do falso consenso		38.7926
6	French (fr) Effet de faux consensus		38.3429
7	Spanish (es) Efecto del falso consenso		37.5687
8	Dutch (nl) Valse consensus effect		30.6202
9	Finnish (fi) Yksimielisyysharha		22.6626
10	Hungarian (hu) Hamis konszenzus		22.2758

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) False consensus effect		1 488 791
2	Russian (ru) Эффект ложного консенсуса		156 132
3	Spanish (es) Efecto del falso consenso		130 809
4	Japanese (ja) 偽の合意効果		74 348
5	Chinese (zh) 錯誤共識效應		60 697
6	Italian (it) Effetto del falso consenso		32 169
7	French (fr) Effet de faux consensus		26 986
8	Finnish (fi) Yksimielisyysharha		21 669
9	Ukrainian (uk) Ефект хибного консенсусу		21 224
10	Hebrew (he) אפקט הקונצנזוס השגוי		15 263

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) False consensus effect		5 266
2	Russian (ru) Эффект ложного консенсуса		654
3	Simple English (simple) False consensus		471
4	Japanese (ja) 偽の合意効果		291
5	French (fr) Effet de faux consensus		253
6	Spanish (es) Efecto del falso consenso		236
7	Chinese (zh) 錯誤共識效應		185
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ефект хибного консенсусу		123
9	Italian (it) Effetto del falso consenso		93
10	Portuguese (pt) Efeito do falso consenso		72

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) False consensus effect		131
2	Spanish (es) Efecto del falso consenso		30
3	Italian (it) Effetto del falso consenso		29
4	French (fr) Effet de faux consensus		25
5	Russian (ru) Эффект ложного консенсуса		24
6	Hungarian (hu) Hamis konszenzus		14
7	Chinese (zh) 錯誤共識效應		13
8	Basque (eu) Kontsentsu faltsuaren efektua		12
9	Japanese (ja) 偽の合意効果		12
10	Finnish (fi) Yksimielisyysharha		11

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) False consensus effect		1
2	Arabic (ar) تأثير الإجماع الكاذب		0
3	Catalan (ca) Efecte del fals consens		0
4	Czech (cs) Efekt falešného konsenzu		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Efiko de falsa konsento		0
6	Spanish (es) Efecto del falso consenso		0
7	Basque (eu) Kontsentsu faltsuaren efektua		0
8	Persian (fa) اثر اجماع کاذب		0
9	Finnish (fi) Yksimielisyysharha		0
10	French (fr) Effet de faux consensus		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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