Mind & society
The “Fallacies and cognitive biases” quiz — Mind & society. It has 25 questions in five categories: Debate traps, Odds and randomness, Price and value, Judging others, Plans and choices. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which informal fallacy involves distorting or exaggerating an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack?
Which Latin phrase names the debate tactic of attacking an opponent's character or motives instead of addressing their argument?
Which fallacy claims that…
In the gameWhich fallacy redefines group…
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Which famous casino bias makes people believe that after a long run of black on the roulette wheel, red is overdue to strike?
Which cognitive trap led military analysts to reinforce bombers where bullet holes appeared, until Abraham Wald pointed out missing engines?
Which probabilistic bias is…
In the gameWhich sporting belief, famously…
In the gameWhich statistical principle did…
In the gameWhich cognitive bias causes shoppers to perceive a sale price as a great bargain simply because a higher original figure was presented first?
Which behavioral bias explains why students randomly given a university coffee mug demand twice as much to part with it as buyers will offer?
Which pricing trick introduces…
In the gameWhich Scandinavian furniture giant…
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Which bias makes us blame another driver's sudden swerve on their reckless personality, while excusing our own errors on heavy traffic?
Which social bias emerged in Henri Tajfel's experiments, where boys discriminated in favor of peers arbitrarily assigned to their own group?
Which psychological hypothesis leads…
In the gameWhich cognitive bias was…
In the gameWhich meta-bias describes our…
In the gameWhich cognitive bias convinces us in retrospect that an unexpected election victory or market crash was entirely predictable from the start?
Which cognitive bias explains why patients agree to surgery more readily when told it has a 90% survival rate rather than a 10% mortality rate?
Which cognitive bias was…
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In the gameDevised in 1966 by…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.