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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Hockey Helmets, Daylight Saving, and Other Binary Choices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say might be a demographic consequence of parents choosing their children's traits?
(a) Median IQ might increase.
(b) Median size might increase.
(c) Median longevity might increase.
(d) Left-handedness might disappear.

2. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?
(a) Introduces non-economic competition.
(b) Introduces randomness.
(c) Introduces uncertainty.
(d) Introduces tension and inequality.

3. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?
(a) Heuristics with which to judge behavior in nature.
(b) Information about the difficulties of modeling social behavior.
(c) An explanation for other phenomena that fit the same pattern.
(d) A mathematical model that accounts for all microbehavior within the phenomenon.

4. What does Schelling say about the underlying motivation for segregation?
(a) It is based in race or ethnic hatred.
(b) ItIt is inevitable.
(c) It can be fairly ordinary.
(d) It is necessary.

5. What does Schelling say the measles story is an example of?
(a) A critical-mass process.
(b) A paradoxical process.
(c) A public-health process.
(d) A counter-intuitive process.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

2. What does Schelling say social scientists consider in behavior modeling?

3. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?

4. What additional factors does Schelling say contribute to population preferences?

5. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?

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