Thursday, October 20, 2011
quiz
On Wednesday the class took a quiz to look at what happens behind our deciding process. We looked at how previous stereotypes affect the process, as well as, how past experiences can also affect this process. I found that I actually did pretty well on the quiz. As soon as i read the first question I thought it might be a quiz on which the obvious answer is usually the wrong one. I thought that the quiz was designed to say, "hey, you jump to conclusions." However, I never really looked that deeply into why I choose answers to questions I couldn't begin to understand. After we finished the quiz, the class looked at why we may have gotten some of the questions wrong. I thought it was a very helpful exercise in general.
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I think Mondays quiz was good at illustrating the different biases that people have in decision making. The quiz help me to learn from my mistakes and help me understand why I made the mistakes that I did. The material was very helpful in decision making when you do not have a lot of background information.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on your interpretation of the test, as I looked at it and thought the majority of the questions were "tricks" and that most of the correct answers were the ones you wouldn't pick right away. After learning what heuristics were, and knowing my original thoughts were correct, I came to see the benefits of the quiz.
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