Questionnaire

Galton described how people with no expertise would try to judge which horse would win a race as an analogy for...

• the economy 

• competition 

• Democracy 

What did Galton find out with the Plymouth crowd experiment?

• Groups are remarkably intelligent 

• Most people take the correct decisions

• People can make sophisticated cost-benefit calculations

He believed that collective decisions were never right.

• Charles Mackay

• Francis Galton

• James Surowiecki

How does the author name collective intelligence?

• The wisdom of the crowds

• Herd mentality

• Unconcious crowd decision

It is another word for deduce except...

• Infer 

• Define

• Conclude

What was not discovered by the Iowa experiment?

• a second strategy that our brain uses to make sense of situations

• how we make unconscious decisions 

• unconcious decision making

It is an example in which conscious thinking is use

• when we make a quick decision 

• when we meet someone for the first time

• when we decide to invite someone to a party

Breeding was important for Galton for the following reasons except...

• He believed that only a few people with certain characteristics could keep society healthy 

• ...

• Society could only remain strong if the power stayed in the hands of a well-bred few