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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30 - 34.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who wrote the article "The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making"?
(a) Robyn Dawes.
(b) Baruch Fischhoff.
(c) Malcolm Gladwell.
(d) Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras.
2. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?
(a) Inform of facts.
(b) Satisfy the need for coherence.
(c) Entertain and enlighten.
(d) Garnish attention from actual news.
3. Who proved mathematically that attempts to explain loss aversion by the utility of wealth are doomed to fail?
(a) Bruno Frey.
(b) Richard Thaler.
(c) Matthew Rabin.
(d) John Gottman.
4. How many of the participants in Nisbett's experiment at the Univerity of Michigan never got out of their booth when the stooge pleaded for help?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 13.
(d) 2.
5. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?
(a) The conscience.
(b) The ego.
(c) System 1.
(d) System 2.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the author of Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence?
2. In one example provided by the author in Chapter 31, he establishes two sports fans going to a game while facing a blizzard. One bought his ticket and the other one got his for free from a friend. The author asserts that the fan who paid is more likely to drive. What provides the explanation for this assertion?
3. 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?
4. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?
5. The author states in Chapter 25, "Gambles represent the fact that the consequences of choices are" what (526)?
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