Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Cognitive Reflection Test

In the video, Intelligent, Cognitive Reflection, and Decision Making, Shane Fredrick talks about his cognitive reflection test (CRT). In the test, Fredrick is able to “predict an individual’s predilection,” (Intelligent, Cognitive Reflection, and Decision Making). In other words, he’s able to predict a person’s preference for something. The test involves only 3 questions and a survey on financial gambles and other risk based decisions. These topics are questioned because of Fredrick’s findings that “people have widely varying tastes for risks, and different levels of patience.”(Intelligent, Cognitive Reflection, and Decision Making)

I found this video to be intriguing and long. The length of things has seemed to really mess me up on this project (facebook is only a click away). After all the research I’ve done, one of the biggest trends I’ve noticed is the lack of need for a lot of information to be able to make a conclusion about someone or something. Like with the CRT only having 3 questions. In most other cases it takes way more than 3 questions to learn about a person. Another thing that gets me is that this video was made 4 years ago. I hadn’t really noticed much on when most of my information was dated. So, I hadn’t thought about how long researchers have been working on this topic. But I guess now I know.
"Intelligent, Cognitive Reflection, and Decision Making." MIT World: Distributed Intelligence. Web. 14 April 2010. .

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