What Counts as Evidence? — Quiz

1.

Which of the following provides the strongest evidence for a causal claim?

2.

A news article reports that a drug 'reduces the risk of disease X by 50%'. What additional information is essential before evaluating this claim?

3.

Confirmation bias, as documented by Nickerson (1998), refers to:

4.

What distinguishes a systematic review from a single randomised controlled trial?

5.

Kahneman's System 1 thinking is characterised by:

6.

Explain what cherry-picking means in the context of evidence, and give one example of how it might occur in a news article about health research.

7.

Why does Stanovich argue that intelligence and epistemic rationality are distinct, and what does this mean for evidence evaluation?

8.

Describe two ways in which accurate statistics can nonetheless create a misleading impression.