You can’t decide whether or not someone made a reasoning error by engaging in an action without understanding the goals that the person has for engaging in that action. The goals are part of his mind and the fallacy in which you engage by assuming you know the goals is mind reading.
You seem to treat the situation like you are the first person whom the interviewer asked those questions. In most cases that’s not true and the fact that your friend faced the same questions is evidence for it not being true. You should expect that the interviewer knows the kind of answers the average interviewee gives to the question.
The situation isn’t similar at all. In the case of Henry Ford the question is whether there’s coherent concept of ignorance under which Ford as a single individual can shown to be ignorant. It’s also not a situation where people get ranked against each other based on their ability to deal with the same questions.
That said, the case of Henry Ford was a win for everybody involved. Ford got publicity, the newspapers had a good story to sell and had a judgement of 6 cents against them and didn’t have to pay Ford the 1 million in libel that Ford was asking for.
Hi ChristianKL, I dug deeper and did some more research and found a few biases or fallacies, that cause this Henry Ford situation - (1) Appeal to Tradition—i.e. asking the same questions, because they were asked by everybody since ages - (2) The Illusory Correlation—Finding a relation between two unrelated variables in this case—candidates who can’t answer these specific questions in this specific form aren’t eligible for the role
(3) Appeal to Elitism or Snobbish version of Argumentum Ad Populum
All the elites use Ritz, so if you are an elite you must also be at the Ritz! All the elite intellectual knows the answers to these questions and if you don’t know that answers to these questions, may be you are not elite!
I have written an article about the same, please let me know if these fallacies/biases can directly or indirectly cause the Henry Ford Interview Situation! Also let me know if you can add to the list.
You can’t decide whether or not someone made a reasoning error by engaging in an action without understanding the goals that the person has for engaging in that action. The goals are part of his mind and the fallacy in which you engage by assuming you know the goals is mind reading.
You seem to treat the situation like you are the first person whom the interviewer asked those questions. In most cases that’s not true and the fact that your friend faced the same questions is evidence for it not being true. You should expect that the interviewer knows the kind of answers the average interviewee gives to the question.
The situation isn’t similar at all. In the case of Henry Ford the question is whether there’s coherent concept of ignorance under which Ford as a single individual can shown to be ignorant. It’s also not a situation where people get ranked against each other based on their ability to deal with the same questions.
That said, the case of Henry Ford was a win for everybody involved. Ford got publicity, the newspapers had a good story to sell and had a judgement of 6 cents against them and didn’t have to pay Ford the 1 million in libel that Ford was asking for.
Hi ChristianKL, I dug deeper and did some more research and found a few biases or fallacies, that cause this Henry Ford situation - (1) Appeal to Tradition—i.e. asking the same questions, because they were asked by everybody since ages -
(2) The Illusory Correlation—Finding a relation between two unrelated variables in this case—candidates who can’t answer these specific questions in this specific form aren’t eligible for the role
(3) Appeal to Elitism or Snobbish version of Argumentum Ad Populum
All the elites use Ritz, so if you are an elite you must also be at the Ritz! All the elite intellectual knows the answers to these questions and if you don’t know that answers to these questions, may be you are not elite!
I have written an article about the same, please let me know if these fallacies/biases can directly or indirectly cause the Henry Ford Interview Situation! Also let me know if you can add to the list.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/henry-ford-fallacy-general-knowledge-interview-questions-boni-aditya