D265 Critical Thinking Section 3 Answered 100% Correct

Principle of Charity - ANSWER-One should ascribe the most reasonable arguments possible to people with whom one disagrees. Benefit of following the Principle of Charity? Choose 2. - ANSWER- Better understanding the views of people one disagrees with., Avoiding the straw man fallacy - ANSWER- confirmation bias - ANSWER-Putting too much weight on evidence that supports what one already believes. Example of confirmation bias? - ANSWER-The conclusion of that opinion piece disagrees with what I currently think, so the argument in it must not be any good. Anchoring bias? - ANSWER-Placing one's estimates of a numerical quantity close to an arbitrary quantity one has been exposed to recently. Availability bias? - ANSWER-Basing one's beliefs on the examples that come most easily to mind. Claire is watching a television show in which celebrities purchase new homes. Most of the homes in her show sell for over ten million dollars. When she looks at real estate listings in the area she wants to move to, she sees that the average home price is 1.2 million dollars. This strikes her as remarkably affordable. - ANSWER-Anchoring bias Barney believes that people are generally unreliable. He makes a new friend, and this person has kept their word and not missed any engagements with Barney. Barney thinks this must be a fluke, and that this behavior can't be typical of this new friend. - ANSWER-Confirmation bias Darrell is considering where to go for lunch. He thinks about getting a burger, but the first thing that comes to mind is the fact that his brother got a burger recently and got sick afterwards. Darrell decides that burgers are not a safe lunch option. - ANSWER-Availability bias Which of the following accurately characterizes the relationship between online algorithm bubbles and the availability heuristic? - ANSWER-Online algorithm bubbles restrict what kind of information is readily available to us, making use of the availability heuristic even more limiting to our thought.