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Correlation is a statistical pattern (two things move together); causation is a cause-and-effect link — and you cannot reliably infer the second from the first. * A hidden common cause (hot weather) drives both — so ice-cream sales and sunburns correlate without either causing t...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 06, 2026

Content is tailored to your existing interests, knowledge and preferences, so you're increasingly served only views you already hold — a "random elimination" of the perspectives that might challenge you. In a bubble, algorithms adapt what you see to what you already like. The eff...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 06, 2026

Machines are not humans: there is a gap between a machine's enormous performance and its complete lack of consciousness and (genuine) intelligence — and treating it as human-like obscures that gap. Anthropomorphisation is the tendency to project human qualities — understanding, f...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 06, 2026

People with little competence in an area tend to overestimate how competent they are — precisely because the knowledge needed to judge a skill is the same knowledge needed to have it. * Across every competence quartile, self-estimates barely move while real ability climbs — so t...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 06, 2026

Because emotional content — especially anger, outrage and indignation — drives engagement, and algorithms reward whatever drives engagement. * Emotional posts win engagement; the algorithm reads engagement as importance and amplifies them — a self-reinforcing loop that rewards a...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 06, 2026

AI learns from existing data, including its one-sided perspectives — so biased inputs produce biased outputs, and a loss of multi-perspectivity. A model has no view of the world independent of its training data; it absorbs whatever is in that data, including the prejudices and bl...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 06, 2026

Continuing to invest in something because of what you've already spent, rather than because of what it will return going forward. * Rational route: treat spent resources as gone and decide on future value; the fallacy is the dashed arrow, letting past spending drive the choice....

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 06, 2026

Content produced and spread without regard for truth — pushed by troll farms, bots and "computational propaganda" — that pollutes democratic opinion-forming. "Digital bullshit" is not the same as lying (a liar at least tracks the truth in order to hide it); it is communication in...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 06, 2026

Critical thinking is partly a matter of attention and care; when you're doom-scrolling, critical thinking is effectively switched off. The claim is that good thinking has a precondition: deliberate, controlled attention. Practices that fragment and hijack attention — endless scro...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 06, 2026

Involve stakeholders (especially future users), work iteratively with prototypes, "kill your darlings", and test early and often. * Five execution-phase habits that keep you building the chosen solution well — the counterpart to testing whether you picked the right problem. * Th...

Quiz: CTIU / Problem Solving | updated: Aug 06, 2026