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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 is the author of Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence?
(a) Baruch Fischhoff.
(b) Jerry I. Porras.
(c) Paul Meehl.
(d) Malcolm Gladwell.

2. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?
(a) The availability cascade.
(b) Your emotional reactions.
(c) Your ability to think.
(d) Anchoring effects.

3. Who is the finance professor at U.C. Berkeley who created a study wherein he examined the trading records of 10,000 brokerage accounts of individual investors over a seven-year period?
(a) Baruch Fischhoff.
(b) Malcolm Gladwell.
(c) Terry Odean.
(d) Jim Collins.

4. In the experiment conducted at the University of Michigan by Richard Nisbett, how many of the 15 participants responded immediately to the stooge's plea for help?
(a) 9.
(b) 13.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

5. How many bus bombings occurred in Israel between December 2001 and September 2004?
(a) 12.
(b) 9.
(c) 16.
(d) 23.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the conclusion of the paper "Trading is Hazardous to Your Health"?

2. Who was the anesthesiologist who intervened regarding physicians' and midwives' clinical judgment to determine whether a baby faced breathing distress?

3. What does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?

4. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?

5. In discussing the stock market, the author states that if all the assets in a market are correctly priced, it leaves no scope for cleverness but it also does what?

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