Every single person I know well has a double standard for something. Such as "I don't need to improve my driving but everyone else sure does" or a "do as I say not as I do" rule, etc. Though certainly some more than other. This leads me to believe all people do it in some way.

Is it simply human nature?

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The driving one is called the Lake Wobegon Effect. When everybody rates themselves as above-average at something, like driving, that's definitionally impossible. The name comes from the segment, the News from Lake Wobegon, on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, which Garrison Keillor would always sign off, "That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

But yes, it's so common that the phenomenon has a name.

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