For ToK Emotion unit

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2. * Test your reliability of your intuitions by trying the
questions that follow.
* For each question you will have 30 seconds to write down
an answer.
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3. * 1. Linda is thirty-one years old, single, outspoken, bright,
and very much involved in social issues like disarmament and
equal rights. Which of the following statements is more
likely?
* A. Linda is a bank teller
* B. Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist
movement.
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4. * 2. If an unbiased coin is tossed six times in a row, which
of the following sequences in more likely?
* A. H-T-H-T-H-T
* B. H-H-H-H-H-H
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5. * 3. A soccer team has 11 players and one manager. What
are the odds of two people on the field sharing the same
birthday?
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6. * 4. Briefly describe what will happen to the path of a ball
after it is propelled through a spiral tube –like the one
below- and shot out the top of it.
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7. * 5. Imagine that you are standing on a large flat plain holding
a bullet in your left hand and a loaded gun in your right. If
you fire the gun horizontally and at the same instant drop the
bullet from your left hand, which of the two bullets will hit
the ground first?
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8. 6. You and your friend have just spent $10 each to a movie.
After about half an hour you both realise that it is a really
bad movie. List some good reasons for staying until the end
of the movie.
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9. * We tend to be over-confident about our own intuitions and
pride ourselves on being good judges of character,
however, the evidence suggests that our intuitions are not
as good as we like to think. Countless experiments have
shown that when people try to distinguish true stories from
false ones they do no better than they would if they simply
guessed at random.
* Experiment: The Lying Game
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10. * You will be divided into four groups. Each group
is given a role card.
* As a group come to a conclusion on the likely
course of action for the person your group
represents.
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11. * What was your intuitive response as ……..
* Juan or Maria
* Sean or Siobhan?
* What role (if any) did emotion play in your
response?
* What role (if any) did reason play in your response?
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