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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 35 - 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author conludes in Chapter 10 that humans pay more attention to the content of messages than to what?
(a) Information about their reliability.
(b) Their causality.
(c) The statistics behind them.
(d) Information about their connection with self.

2. Who was concluded to achieve better investment results in "Boys Will Be Boys"?
(a) Women.
(b) Professors.
(c) Men.
(d) Bankers.

3. Extreme predictions and willingness to predict events from weak evidence are manifestations of what?
(a) System 1.
(b) Confidence.
(c) System 2.
(d) Arrogance.

4. In the author's description of the cold-pressor experiment, how long did the short episode consist of?
(a) 2 minutes.
(b) 30 seconds.
(c) 60 seconds.
(d) 30 minutes.

5. The author offers a scenario in which a subject purchases a $200 concert ticket to see their favorite band. They find that others are offering $3,000 for the ticket, but they do not sell it. What is this an example of?
(a) Theory-induced blindness.
(b) Narrative fallacy.
(c) The availability cascade.
(d) Endowment effect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What statistician illustrated the ease with which people see patterns where none exist?

2. What are statistical base rates?

3. When did the Yom Kippur War break out?

4. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?

5. Who introduced the term "affective forecasting"?

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