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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 - 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as having held a postdoctoral position for the last three years?
(a) Kim.
(b) Anne.
(c) Jane.
(d) Jennifer.

2. In the conclusion of the study of availability bias conducted by Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Baruch Fischoff, they deduced that estimates of causes of death are warped by what?
(a) The economy.
(b) Family history of illness.
(c) Direct knowledge.
(d) Media coverage.

3. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?
(a) What job Tom has.
(b) What Tom's major is in college.
(c) At what age Tom gets married.
(d) How old Tom is.

4. What term introduced by Nassim Taleb describes how flawed stories of the past shape our views of the present and the future?
(a) Ego fallacy.
(b) Availability fallacy.
(c) Confidence fallacy.
(d) Narrative fallacy.

5. In the statistics presented by the author in the opening of Chapter 10, he states that instances of what disease are less prevalent in rural, sparsely populated counties largely in the Midwest, South, and the West?
(a) Uterine cancer.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Kidney cancer.
(d) Tuberculosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are statistical base rates?

2. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?

3. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?

4. In what branch of the military did the author complete service?

5. Who wrote the bestseller book Blink?

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