Improving Your Judgment for Better Decision-Making

Question 1

How do you improve your judgment about other people?

1. Like people you trust, but don’t trust people you like.
2. Don’t trust your positive and negative emotional feelings.
3. Never use mental simplifiers.
4. Judge likeability, trustworthiness, and competence independently of each other.

Answer 1

4. Judge likeability, trustworthiness, and competence independently of each other.
   Correct

Question 2

What’s the formula for good judgment?

1. Head + Others + Gut = Good Judgment ==> Good Decisions
2. Good Data + Good Information + Good Analysis = Good Judgment ==> Good Decisions
3. Confirming data + Disconfirming data + Inversion = Good Judgment ==> Good Decisions
4. Forest question + Tree question + Inversion = Good Judgment ==> Good Decisions

Answer 2

2. Good Data + Good Information + Good Analysis = Good Judgment ==> Good Decisions
   Correct

Question 3

What’s the best way to expand your default judging style?

1. Trust your gut instinct only when the data supports it.
2. Apply data and evidence to analyze a situation and make course adjustments as needed.
3. Negotiate between your gut and head, data and opinion, your own experiences and views and those of others.
4. Seek other perspectives to expand your point of view.

Answer 3

3. Negotiate between your gut and head, data and opinion, your own experiences and views and those of others.
   Correct

Question 4

What question should be used to judge the effectiveness of your arguments?

1. Did I compromise enough?
2. Did I listen to everyone’s opinion before stating my own?
3. Did I get credit for my main points?
4. Did I highlight common ground?

Answer 4

4. Did I highlight common ground?
   Correct

Question 5

Which statement is NOT true about judging in stressful situations?

1. The act of writing in succinct chunks of information focuses the mind.
2. Smiling during brief periods of stress helps reduce the body’s stress response.
3. Reducing inputs into our brain decreases our cognitive load and helps us judge with a clearer head.
4. 7-8-4 breathing can reduce your ability to use chopsticks.

Answer 5

4. 7-8-4 breathing can reduce your ability to use chopsticks.
   Correct

Question 6

How does negativity bias block self awareness?

1. It causes us to see negative biases in others more than in ourselves.
2. It causes us to attribute negative outcomes to external factors.
3. It causes us to ask too many “why” questions.
4. It causes us to react to bad things more quickly, strongly, and persistently than equivalent good things.

Answer 6

4. It causes us to react to bad things more quickly, strongly, and persistently than equivalent good things.
   Correct

Question 7

Why are experts better at predicting the future?

1. They know a lot about forecasting in their area of expertise.
2. They tend to avoid hindsight bias.
3. They create WonderLists.
4. They’re not.

Answer 7

4. They’re not.
   Correct