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Many people believe there is nothing to learn from history, especially ancient history. What cognitive bias explains the formation of this belief?
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Availability Bias
Confirmation Bias
Bias Blind Spot
Dunning-Kruger Effect
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What is the Bias Blind Spot?
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The assumption that everyone is more prone to thinking errors than you
Being immune to cognitive biases
Being unwittingly susceptible to cognitive biases
The phenomenon that makes objects in the car side mirror appear farther away than they actually are
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What is the reasonable and rational response to a complex issue where you have no expertise and the experts are roughly evenly split?
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You should refrain from forming a conclusion on the matter
You should side with whichever experts you like more
You should continue to believe whatever you were raised to believe on the issue
You should believe whatever you want
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An argument, as philosophers use this term, is:
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a group of statements, leading to a conclusion
a polite dispute, leading to tea and crumpets
an irrational contest, leading to a victor
a contentious debate, leading to physical violence
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The conclusion of an argument is:
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the claim the premises argue for
always the last statement
when everybody is too tired to continue
the evidence or reasoning presented
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The traditional argument for the immortality of the soul is that only composite things can decay – but the soul is not composite.
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True
False
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As all the molecules our body are made out of change every few years, the question must be asked: Am I the same person as I was when I was 5 years old? Locke answers this by saying that I am if and only if I have the same memories as the five-year old had: That allows for the possibility of person A being the same as person B and person B being the same as person C without person A being the same as person C, which seems to be a contradiction.
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True
False
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The soul/mind/consciousness/whatever is composite and not simple – being the same therefore only implies satisfactory resemblance that we are the same person when we were 5 years old.
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True
False
