You're the leader of the Interstellar Dark Beer Drinking Doomsday cult. You predict that the world will end when consumption of dark beer declines by 5% or more in a year. Consumption declines 7%, but the world does not end. When this fact is pointed out, your response is, "Members of the IDBDD drank mass quantities of dark beer, so they saved the world from extinction, proving the validity of my teachings." This is an example of
A) data-driven belief
B) cynicism
C) rationalization of disconfirmation
D) plausibility
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Q1: True believers
A) willingly accept claims by authorities
Q2: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." This means
Q4: "According to recent studies, taking 500 mg
Q5: A cynic is someone who
A) blindly accepts
Q6: Based on data from the Hubble telescope,
Q7: You challenge a speaker to prove his
Q8: Generalizing from a highly unusual event is
Q9: When a speaker asserts that an event
Q10: To be an open-minded person you must
A)
Q11: Claims that rest on plausibility alone
A) may
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