Francis Galton & Plymouth
In which town was the fair held where Francis Galton conducted his famous ox-weight experiment?
Plymouth
What was the last name of the Scottish journalist who published Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds in 1841?
Mackay
Complete the collocation: The dominant ____ of transportation.
Mode
Which verb means "to involve someone in something criminal or scandalous" according to the vocabulary section?
Implicate
How is an analogy defined in the Reading Skill section?
It is a kind of comparison that compares something we know little about to something we know more about
What was the actual weight of the ox after being slaughtered and dressed, which closely matched the crowd's average guess?
1,198 pounds
According to Charles Mackay, how do men behave in their thinking, stating that they "go mad in herds"?
They go mad in herds and only recover their senses slowly and one by one
Fill in the blank: A child's participation in the program requires the ____ of the parents.
Consent
Fill in the blank in the practice exercises: In prediction markets, no individual opinions are ____.
Excluded
In Galton's experiment, what was used by analogy to show that ordinary people might make poor judgments on complex matters?
The weight of an ox
Mention the two things Francis Galton was obsessed with at the beginning of the text: the measurement of physical and mental qualities, and...
Breeding
What was Charles Mackay's main thesis regarding crowds?
That crowds were never wise or reasonable, but doomed to be extreme
Complete: The new regulations received a very negative ____ from the state's businesses.
Response
Complete the prediction market sentence: Since the group does not need to reach a ____, no one is forced to change their opinion.
Consensus
What are the two main reasons writers use analogies according to the text?
To illustrate a difficult concept using a known negative/positive thing, or To make discoveries or argue a point
How many people participated by making a guess in the ox weight competition?
800 people
According to the text, what does the phrase "chasing the expert" mean, and why do sociologists Jack R. Larrick and others call it a mistake?
It is a costly mistake because we tend to attribute success to a few "experts" instead of consulting the crowd, which often knows better
Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb from the rules: As of yet, the state has no mechanism for ____ these regulations.
Enforce
Rewrite the sentence using a form of implicate or imply: The mayor was involved in a scheme that misused public funds.
The mayor was implicated in a scheme that misused public funds
In the section on analogies, the reading "Were Humans Born to Run?" compares the physical abilities of humans with those of...
Animals (large dogs, hyenas, wolves, and wildebeests)
What did Galton conclude about the intelligence of the average person after his breeding and statistical experiments?
It left him with little faith in the intelligence of the average person, calling it "stupidity"
Explain the central paradox presented in the article about large groups: Why, even though most people within a group are not well-informed, can the group make a collectively wise decision?
Even though individual members are not well-informed, under the right circumstances groups are remarkably intelligent and outperform the smartest people in them ("the wisdom of crowds")
Write a grammatically correct sentence using the word sequence: collect / statistics / on how many students.
Example: We need to collect statistics on how many students prefer online classes
Explain the difference in noun form and usage between imply and implicate according to the grammar exercises.
Imply means to state something indirectly (suggesting an idea without saying it outright), whereas implicate means to involve someone in a criminal or scandalous matter
Explain the logic of an analogy described : if we don't know much about A, but we know that A has similarities to B, then...
Therefore, whatever is true of B may also be true of A