Semi Finals Round Battle of the Brains

What bias is seen in the Situation?

An amateur chess player overestimates their performance in the upcoming chess tournament compared to their competent counterparts.

• Self Serving Bias

• Negativity Bias

• Dunning Krugger Effect

• Decline Bias

What bias is seen in the Situation?

A student gets a good grade on a test and tells herself that she studied hard or is good at the material. She gets a bad grade on another test and says the teacher doesn’t like her or the test was unfair.

• Backfire Effect Bias

• Decline Bias

• Self-Serving Bias

• Confirmation Bias

What bias is seen in the Situation?

An English teacher find it hard to teach Grade 7 English students, because it’s hard for the teacher to know for the fact that they know much more about the topic than the students.

• Barnum Effect

• Self-Serving Bias

• Sunk Cost Fallacy

• Curse of Knowledge Bias

What type of Prejudice is seen in situation?

Telling someone they’re “too old” to take part in a certain activity or event.

• Ableism Prejudice

• Racism Prejudice

• Ageism Prejudice

• Sexism Prejudice

What type of Prejudices are seen in situation?

A policemen told the student he is not allowed to go to the concert because of her age and sexual orientation

• Sexual and Ageism Prejudice

• Sexism and Ableism Prejudice

• Sexual and Racism Prejudice

• Ageism and Racism Prejudice

In identifying information, it is necessary that a truthful fact about an idea is seen.

• True Information

• Truthful Information

• Truthfulness

• True Information

This is essential for authentic communication to occur and makes genuine interaction between people possible.

• Truth Identification

• Truth Seeking

• Truth Finding

• Truth Telling

This is the degree to which something is related or useful to what is happening or being talked about.

• Relevant

• Relation

• Relevance

• Related

These are facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis. These should always be truthful and relevant when collecting.

• Information

• Data

• Answers

• Knowledge

It is a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.

• Criticism

• Opinion

• Argument

• Fallacy