WONDER Phase Quiz

A college student explains to his parents that since Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college and went on to become billionaires, he has decided that he too will take that route and drop out so that he can similarly achieve great wealth and success. How can the student’s parents use survivorship bias to explain the flaw in their son’s reasoning?

A friend tells you that since their social media feeds are full of posts and articles arguing that a proposed tax increase would harm the economy, they feel convinced that it must be true and have begun ignoring anyone who argues differently. What type of bias is your friend falling prey to?

True or False: Inattentional blindness, or perceptual blindness, in which a person misses something unexpected even though it’s right in front of their eyes, due to nothing more than a lack of attention, is a very rare phenomenon and only occurs to individuals with a particular form of cognitive disorder.

In order to be a talented and successful data analyst, a person needs to learn how to be keenly observant of which of the following?

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True or False: A data set about a topic can be used to answer any and every question about that topic.

Which of the following could be valid reasons that explain why a question that’s worthwhile to one person might not be worthwhile to another person?

Which of the following is the most difficult, and often impossible, to establish using historical data alone?

Which type of questions are more important?

Which type of statement is the following about a company’s products:

“People prefer Product A to Product B.”

True or False: If the result of deductive reasoning is logically valid then it must also be true. In other words, it’s impossible for a logically valid deduction to be false.

When we use individual observations to form thoughts about what might be true in general, then we’re using what form of reasoning?

How many observations that REFUTE a hypothesis are needed in order to FALSIFY it, or to prove that it’s wrong, if the hypothesis takes the form of a universal statement (such as “All swans are white.”)?

How many observations that CONFIRM a hypothesis are needed in order to VERIFY it, or to prove that it’s correct, if the hypothesis takes the form of a universal statement (such as “all swans are white”)?

If a statement or hypothesis is FALSIFIABLE, then which of the following is true about it? Select all that apply:

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After you state your guess or hypothesis, then you should make an honest attempt to use either historical data or experimental data to do which of the following?

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If you want to compare the mean (average) temperatures of two samples of patients, those who took a medication and those who did not, then the Null Hypothesis (H₀) would be which of the following?

Data curation (the organization and integration of data collected from various sources) typically involves which of the following tasks? Select all that apply.

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Which of the following are considerations that affect the SIZE of a particular data table?

If this data table were to be filtered to include only Lower middle income countries in South Asia with a 2020 population that was greater than 10,000,000 people, how many different countries would the filtered table include?

Fill in the missing clause of the following SQL query designed to return Lower middle income countries with populations greater than 10 million.