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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 - 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?
(a) Christopher Hsee.
(b) Gary Klein.
(c) John List.
(d) Sir Francis Galton.

2. The author states in Chapter 25, "Gambles represent the fact that the consequences of choices are" what (526)?
(a) "Axioms."
(b) "Foreseeable."
(c) "Predictable."
(d) "Never certain."

3. Where was John von Neumann originally from?
(a) Israel.
(b) Austria-Hungary.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

4. What do causal base rates do?
(a) They create axioms.
(b) They create ego depletion.
(c) They solidify one's view of the overall perspective of a case.
(d) They change one's view of how the individual case came to be.

5. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which choice is favored by intuition?
(a) Anne.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Kim.
(d) Jane.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 26, "In mixed gambles, where both a gain and a loss are possible," what happens (552)?

2. Whom from the University of Chicago asked people to price sets of dinnerware in order to examine joint evaluation?

3. Who wrote the book Sources of Power?

4. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?

5. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?

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