LIST A

Find out how well calibrated you are

 

Below is a list of statements. For each, say

  1. Whether you think it is true or false
  2. How sure you are in your answer, on a scale of 50% (I have no idea whether my answer is right or wrong) to 100% (I’m totally sure that my answer is correct). The higher the number, the more confident you are in your answer.
A triangle has three sides.
True
False

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Donald Trump was the US President before Barack Obama.
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Keir Starmer is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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The Behavioural Insights Team is sometimes called the 'Nudge unit'.
True
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Robert Oppenheimer won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
True
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Facebook has over 6 billion active monthly users.
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Michael Phelps is a famous Olympic runner.
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Benedict Arnold was the name of a United States President.
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Blackpink is a famous girl group from South Korea.
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TikTok was created by a company called ByteDance.
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'Loss aversion' means that people prefer avoiding losses to acquiring equivalent gains.
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GPT, the AI tool, means ‘Generative Pre-trained Transformer’.
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Paul McCartney was a member of The Rolling Stones.
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Charles Dickens was born before George Washington.
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Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day.
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Antarctica is a desert.
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The 'availability heuristic' is the tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs.
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Las Vegas is in California.
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The Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Behavioural Insights Team is owned by the UK government.
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