Many people believe there is nothing to learn from history, especially ancient history. What cognitive bias explains the formation of this belief

Question 1Many people believe there is nothing to learn from history, especially ancient history. What cognitive bias explains the formation of this belief

  Availability Bias

  Confirmation Bias

  Bias Blind Spot

  Dunning-Kruger Effect

 Question 2What is the Bias Blind Spot

  The assumption that everyone is more prone to thinking errors than you

  Being immune to cognitive biases

  Being unwittingly susceptible to cognitive biases

  The phenomenon that makes objects in the car side mirror appear farther away than they actually are

 Question 3What is the reasonable and rational response to a complex issue where you have no expertise and the experts are roughly evenly split

  You should refrain from forming a conclusion on the matter

  You should side with whichever experts you like more

  You should continue to believe whatever you were raised to believe on the issue

  You should believe whatever you want

 Question 4An argument, as philosophers use this term, is

  a group of statements, leading to a conclusion

  a polite dispute, leading to tea and crumpets

  an irrational contest, leading to a victor

  a contentious debate, leading to physical violence

 Question 5The premises of an argument are …

  the reason or evidence offered for believing the conclusion

  always true

  probably unimportant

  usually false

 Question 6The conclusion of an argument is

  the claim the premises argue for

  always the last statement

  when everybody is too tired to continue

  the evidence or reasoning presented

 Question 7An inductive argument tries to show that if the premises are all true, the conclusion is probably true.

Question 8In a reductio ad absurdum argument, you begin by assuming the opposite of what you want to prove in order to show that this assumption leads to a contradiction.

Question 9Consider the following argument

All college teachers are full of themselves.

My Professor is a college teacher.

Therefore, My Professor is full of himself.

This argument is a valid deductive argument.

Question 10Reflect on a time when you were convinced of something by someone

(in conversation or in writing) that you now realize may have been due to a cognitive bias. Discuss the situation and the relevant cognitive bias(es).