Giving Half the Members of a Group Some Purported Psychological

question 29

Multiple Choice

Giving half the members of a group some purported psychological finding and the other half an opposite result is an easy way to demonstrate the impact of

• A) overconfidence.
• B) common sense.
• C) hindsight bias.
• D) intuition.

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