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When you flip a coin and get heads five times in a row, expecting tails to be "due" next exemplifies this common reasoning error.
Difficulty: Easy- Gambler's fallacy
- Sunk cost fallacy
- Confirmation bias
- Hindsight bias
Nassim Taleb coined a term for low-probability, high-impact events that experts consistently fail to predict—naming them after what creature?
Difficulty: Medium- Gray rhino
- White elephant
- Black swan
- Red herring
Hanson's futarchy proposal suggests replacing political decisions with prediction markets—where policy winners are determined by which bets on what metric?
Difficulty: Hard- Vote share predictions
- National welfare predictions
- Budget impact predictions
- Implementation probability
After a plane crash makes headlines, many travelers switch to driving despite cars being statistically more dangerous—illustrating this mental shortcut.
Difficulty: Easy- Confirmation bias
- Availability heuristic
- Hindsight bias
- Sunk cost fallacy
Game theorist Thomas Schelling showed that players often coordinate on arbitrary but prominent options—calling these attention-grabbing solutions what?
Difficulty: Medium- Nash equilibria
- Pareto optima
- Dominant strategies
- Focal points
Luce's choice axiom states that the ratio of probabilities for any two options remains constant regardless of what additional alternatives are available—violating what phenomenon?
Difficulty: Hard- Preference reversal
- Transitivity violations
- Context effects
- Framing dependence
Before an election, polls show your candidate ahead, so you stay home—but if everyone thinks this way, your side loses. This describes what dilemma?
Difficulty: Easy- Prisoner's dilemma
- Trolley problem
- Free rider problem
- Tragedy of the commons
In a famous experiment, subjects ignored a gorilla walking through a basketball game—demonstrating what selective attention phenomenon studied by Simons and Chabris?
Difficulty: Medium- Change blindness
- Attentional bias
- Inattentional blindness
- Perceptual narrowing
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