...many of those questions are rather odd. I went in expecting things like “are the tides controlled by the oceans”, questions phrased in a way that sounds stupid but are actually correct (or the “is it scientific to say”), which would have shown that deliberately avoiding stupid statements can lead smart people to make incorrect statements.
And some, like “Genes play a major role in determining personality.” and “Things for blacks in the US have improved over time.”, fall into that category. I particularly liked “Whites are hurt by affirmative action policies that favor
blacks”. However, many of the questions outright contain “should” statements where you actually cannot say that the answers the “smarties” gave were factually incorrect, because they require getting into our goals and morality, or at least talking about very complicated things from that angle.
...many of those questions are rather odd. I went in expecting things like “are the tides controlled by the oceans”, questions phrased in a way that sounds stupid but are actually correct (or the “is it scientific to say”), which would have shown that deliberately avoiding stupid statements can lead smart people to make incorrect statements.
And some, like “Genes play a major role in determining personality.” and “Things for blacks in the US have improved over time.”, fall into that category. I particularly liked “Whites are hurt by affirmative action policies that favor blacks”. However, many of the questions outright contain “should” statements where you actually cannot say that the answers the “smarties” gave were factually incorrect, because they require getting into our goals and morality, or at least talking about very complicated things from that angle.