The phrase "are often confident" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a general tendency or characteristic of a subject, indicating that they frequently exhibit confidence.
Example: "Students who participate in group discussions are often confident in expressing their ideas."
Alternatives: "tend to be confident" or "frequently display confidence."
In the Motherlode blog column "After Class, Skimpy Equality," Lisa Belkin observes that in the classroom, female students are often confident, but socially, "equality, respect and self-worth" often go out the window.
Millennials are often confident about their softer skills.
Despite their over-representation in crashes, young drivers are often confident in their driving abilities, tend to overestimate their own driving skills, and perceive their own chances of involvement in a crash to be significantly lower than that of their peers [20, 9, 8, 25].
Practitioners were often confident about being able to evaluate the activities at the local level in terms of short term effects on participants, but lacked precise means of linking these to particular elements of social capital and health outcomes.
People are often more confident than accurate.
What has changed, she said, is that students are often overly confident.
And, he reports, people who do things badly are often very confident of their abilities.
People who do things badly, according to a recent study at Cornell University, are often "supremely confident of their abilities", while "the most able subjects" are "likely to underestimate their own competence".
Wilson said that women are often not confident to go out and ask for capital and instead end up bootstrapping their companies with the support of family and friends.
"People who are experiencing cognitive decline are often very confident in their financial decision making," says Gary Mottola, a social psychologist who works at Finra to thwart financial abuse of the elderly.
It is also the case that people are often more confident in their judgements about various concrete cases than they are about abstract theories that attempt to account for their judgements, and so regard this is a more profitable way to approach a question (see Sunstein 1993, 775 7).
