BQ5 and your echo chamber | 25 questions

Question 1

What did Lin Manuel Miranda say about the relationship of art to ethics?

Accepted Answer

Art is like 'bypass surgery' in terms of engaging us with moral issues.

Question 2

What does the example of shark attacks and ice cream consumption prove?

Accepted Answer

That correlation does not imply causation.

Question 3

What did Naomi Oreskes say about science?

Accepted Answer

"Most scientific claims are a leap of faith."

Question 4

What do we call it when we see different areas of knowledge and disciplines as existing separately to each other?

Accepted Answer

A silo mentality.

Question 5

What did Louis Pasteur mean when he said, "Chance favours a prepared mind"?

Accepted Answer

We have to be trained in order to spot when something unexpected happens

Question 6

Julia Galef advocates being a 'soldier' rather than a 'scout' when it comes to overcoming cognitive biases.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Michael Mosley said that to reason effectively, we should remove all emotion from our decision-making.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

According to Donald Hoffman, what is always the enemy of knowledge?

Accepted Answer

Dogmatism

Question 9

What does ECREE stand for?

Accepted Answer

Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

Question 10

Who argued that science advances in a 'violent' way, via 'paradigm shifts'?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Kuhn

Question 11

What did Peter Morgan mean when he said, "You sometimes have to forsake accuracy, but you must never forsake truth."

Accepted Answer

You can leave out minor details about history, but never the broad themes.

Question 12

What do David Eagleman's '3Bs' stand for in his explanation about the way new knowledge emerges?

Accepted Answer

Bending, Blending, Breaking

Question 13

Inductive reasoning is based on the idea of making broad conclusions to specific observations or findings.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

What did the writer Zadie Smith say about the role literature can play in helping us to understand the world?

Accepted Answer

"Poetry and fiction fill in the gaps of history".

Question 15

Which pop artist did we explore whilst considering the role plagiarism plays in the development of new ideas?

Accepted Answer

Roy Lichtenstein

Question 16

True or false: the meaning of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been continually reinterpreted over time.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Who said, "There is no great invention without imagination"?

Accepted Answer

Ada Lovelace

Question 18

How did Stuart Firestein refer to the search for new scientific knowledge?

Accepted Answer

"Like farting around in the dark."

Question 19

The key lesson Sasha Sagan learned from her parents was the importance of 'being certain about your knowledge claims'.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

What argument did Mario Klingemann offer about the role of AI in art?

Accepted Answer

Humans aren't original, whereas machines can create from scratch.

Question 21

Which scientist do we associate with 'standing on the shoulders of giants' to explain the way he made breakthroughs?

Accepted Answer

Isaac Newton

Question 22

What is the term given to the discovery of something positive by accident (often related to scientific knowledge)?

Accepted Answer

Serendipity

Question 23

Which of the following is a key way in identifying when cultural appropriation has taken place?

Accepted Answer

A heritage item has been used by a celebrity for commercial gain

Question 24

What did we decide drives the emergence of TV shows and movies that deal with topics current in society?

Accepted Answer

A need to make sense of, and control, difficult events and issues.

Question 25

How did Steve Jobs define creativity?

Accepted Answer

"Just making connections."

BQ5 and your echo chamber | 25 questions

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BQ5 and your echo chamber | 25 questions

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