Thanks for writing this, it was interesting to read a participant’s thoughts!
Responses, spoilered:
Industrial revolution: I think if you re-read the article and look at all the modifications made, you will agree that there definitely are false claims. (The original answer sheet referred to a version that had fewer modifications than the final edited article; I have fixed this.)
Price gouging: I do think this is pretty clear if one understand economics, but indeed, the public has very different views from economists here, so I thought it makes for a good change. (This wasn’t obvious to all of my friends, at least.)
World economy: I received some (fair) complaints about there being too much stuff in the article. In any case, it might be good for one to seriously think about what the world economy looks like.
Cell: Yep, one of the easier ones I’d say.
Fundamental theorems of welfare economics: Yeah, I don’t think modification was successful. (But let me defend myself: I wanted to try some “lies of omission”, and something where an omission is unarguably wrong is in the context of mathematical theorems with missing assumptions. Well, I thought for math it’s difficult to find an example that is not too easy nor too hard, and decided to go for economics instead. And asymmetric information and externalities really are of practical importance.)
List of causes by death rate: Leans towards memorization, yes. I’d guess it’s not obvious to everyone, though, and I think one can do non-zero inference here.
Natural selection: (I think this is one of the weaker modifications.)
Thanks for writing this, it was interesting to read a participant’s thoughts!
Responses, spoilered:
Industrial revolution: I think if you re-read the article and look at all the modifications made, you will agree that there definitely are false claims. (The original answer sheet referred to a version that had fewer modifications than the final edited article; I have fixed this.)
Price gouging: I do think this is pretty clear if one understand economics, but indeed, the public has very different views from economists here, so I thought it makes for a good change. (This wasn’t obvious to all of my friends, at least.)
World economy: I received some (fair) complaints about there being too much stuff in the article. In any case, it might be good for one to seriously think about what the world economy looks like.
Cell: Yep, one of the easier ones I’d say.
Fundamental theorems of welfare economics: Yeah, I don’t think modification was successful. (But let me defend myself: I wanted to try some “lies of omission”, and something where an omission is unarguably wrong is in the context of mathematical theorems with missing assumptions. Well, I thought for math it’s difficult to find an example that is not too easy nor too hard, and decided to go for economics instead. And asymmetric information and externalities really are of practical importance.)
List of causes by death rate: Leans towards memorization, yes. I’d guess it’s not obvious to everyone, though, and I think one can do non-zero inference here.
Natural selection: (I think this is one of the weaker modifications.)
Working time: Deleted the spoiler files, thanks.