they give the quiz asker a higher intelligence rating than the other person.

他们给提问者的分数会高于给回答者的分数
After all, "He seemed to know a lot of answers.

毕竟他看起来知道很多
The other person didn't get much right."

另一个人却好像了解得不那么多
We tend to fail to discount the situation. If you were giving a job talk--

我们很可能没充分考虑情境因素如果你正在进行职业演讲
and this is for people in graduate school particularly--

特别是给研究生院做
If you were giving a job talk and the slide projector breaks, you're screwed.

如果你正在做演讲幻灯片投影仪坏了你就搞砸了
Nobody is going to say to themselves,

没有人会说
"Oh, well, it's not such a good talk because the slide projector broke."

这次演说不好是由于投影仪坏掉了
They'll say, "It's not such a good talk because of the person."

他们会说由于这人不怎么样这次演说效果不怎么样
Somebody could give a talk and we could throw smarties

有人进行了一次演说然后我们不停地
at them the whole time and then you could-- then the other people would say,

发表自以为是的评论而其他人又会说
"The person looked kind of upset during the whole talk.

这人在整个演讲中看起来都有点烦躁