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 13.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 409 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 839 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #171 in February 2010
• Global: #8037 in February 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8080 in February 2014
• Global: #95688 in November 2016

There are 26 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, 2026 (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		57.0233
2	Basque (eu) Kontsentsu faltsuaren efektua		51.0845
3	Korean (ko) 허위 합의 효과		50.0124
4	Catalan (ca) Efecte del fals consens		48.1258
5	Ukrainian (uk) Ефект хибного консенсусу		38.804
6	Portuguese (pt) Efeito do falso consenso		38.5407
7	French (fr) Effet de faux consensus		38.2364
8	Spanish (es) Efecto del falso consenso		35.6769
9	Dutch (nl) Valseconsensuseffect		30.5181
10	Finnish (fi) Yksimielisyysharha		22.6542

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) False consensus effect		1 531 134
2	Russian (ru) Эффект ложного консенсуса		165 226
3	Spanish (es) Efecto del falso consenso		134 794
4	Japanese (ja) 偽の合意効果		78 113
5	Chinese (zh) 錯誤共識效應		63 130
6	Italian (it) Effetto del falso consenso		33 142
7	French (fr) Effet de faux consensus		30 446
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ефект хибного консенсусу		22 370
9	Finnish (fi) Yksimielisyysharha		22 288
10	Hebrew (he) אפקט הקונצנזוס השגוי		15 807

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		3 574
2	Japanese (ja) 偽の合意効果		360
3	Russian (ru) Эффект ложного консенсуса		315
4	French (fr) Effet de faux consensus		273
5	Chinese (zh) 錯誤共識效應		224
6	Spanish (es) Efecto del falso consenso		173
7	Hebrew (he) אפקט הקונצנזוס השגוי		77
8	Korean (ko) 허위 합의 효과		67
9	Simple English (simple) False consensus		66
10	Persian (fa) اثر اجماع کاذب		56

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		138
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		25
6	Japanese (ja) 偽の合意効果		16
7	Hungarian (hu) Hamis konszenzus		15
8	Chinese (zh) 錯誤共識效應		13
9	Basque (eu) Kontsentsu faltsuaren efektua		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	Arabic (ar) تأثير الإجماع الكاذب		3
2	English (en) False consensus effect		2
3	Romanian (ro) Efectul de consens fals		2
4	Esperanto (eo) Efiko de falsa konsento		1
5	Catalan (ca) Efecte del fals consens		0
6	Czech (cs) Efekt falešného konsenzu		0
7	Spanish (es) Efecto del falso consenso		0
8	Basque (eu) Kontsentsu faltsuaren efektua		0
9	Persian (fa) اثر اجماع کاذب		0
10	Finnish (fi) Yksimielisyysharha		0

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

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