Cogito

What is meta cognition?

• The ability to synthetize many strings of information.

• The process of understanding our thought process.

• The name for Facebook's AI.

• The study of metaphors.

What is the Barnum Effect?

• When you think something applies specifically to your personality when it is actually very vague.

• When outliers overweight the distribution, leading to misrepresentation of a phenomenon.

• When something previously despised becomes extremely popular in a short period of time.

• When a community becomes so isolated that they loose sociological behaviors considered as rules in the rest of the world.

If you have limited competencies in a domain but are convinced you have mastered it, what are you likely experiencing?

• A cognitive bias

• High self-esteem

• Beginners' luck

• Low self-esteem

"Zététique" is a discipline derived from skepticism. What does a zetetic person do that a skeptic does not always do?

• Apply scientific method to study the question

• Apply psycho-analysis to study their position on the question

• Take the ethical stance on the question

• Favor the optimistic outcome to the question

Taking a mental shortcut to solve a problem quickly is ?

• a Heuristic

• a Bias

• a Tautology

• an Algorithm

What is Occam's razor?

• A tool used by barbers in the Middle Ages.

• The principle that the more assumptions an hypothesis makes, the more likely it is to be true.

• A method of cutting pies into the fewest number of cuts.

• The principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements.

If you assert that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false, you are making an appeal to [...]?

• Ignorance

• Faith

• Science

• Patience

What kind of reasoning is the act of deriving "b" as a logical consequence to "a"? e.g. "a": swans have a long neck so "b": the creature that will come out from swan egg will have a long neck

• Deductive reasoning

• Abductive reasoning

• Inductive reasoning

• Projective reasoning

What kind of reasoning is the act of inferring some general principle "b" from a body of observations "a"? e.g. "a": all the swans I see are white, so "b": there are good chances that swans are all white.

• Deductive reasoning

• Abductive reasoning

• Inductive reasoning

• Projective reasoning

What kind of reasoning is the act of allows inferring "b" as an explanation of "a". e.g "a": the creature that hatched from the egg does not have a long neck, it may be inferred that "b" the egg was swapped.

• Deductive reasoning

• Abductive reasoning

• Inductive reasoning

• Projective reasoning