Thought Experiment Quiz - Statistics

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This quiz has been taken 7 times
The average score is 5 of 13

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Hint:	Thought Experiment:	% Correct
Thought Experiment About a Feline's Superposition of Dead and Alive States in a Box Linked to Subatomic Events that May or May Not Occur	Schrödinger's Cat	67%
Thought Experiment About the Identity of a Vessel which Every Original Component has Been Replaced	Ship of Theseus	67%
Thought Experiment in Ethics About a Vehicle Heading Towards Multiple PeopleWith You Having the Ability to Change Directions but Sacrificing A Single Person	Trolley Problem	67%
Thought Experiment About People in a Dwelling that Only Knowledge of the Outside World are Inaccurate Shadows Illustrating the Effect of Education and the Lack of Education on Our Nature	Allegory of the Cave	50%
Modern Incarnation of Another Thought Experiment About the Thinking Organ of the Body Contained in an Tub in a Whole Deception of the Outside World	Brain In A Vat	33%
Thought Experiment About a Monkey Typing on a Computer for Infinity Eventually Will Create the Collective Works of Shakespeare	Infinite Monkey Theorem	33%
Thought Experiment in Game Theory About Whether or Not Criminals Will Cooperate for Mutual Reward, or Betray Each Other for Individual Reward	Prisoner's Dilemma	33%
Thought Experiment About a Confined Bug Demonstrating that Language Understandable by One Individual is Incoherent	Beetle In A Box	17%
Thought Experiment About a Donkey that Dies Due to Lack of Food and Water Because it is Placed Precisely Between Hay and Water and Can't Choose Illustrating that it Cannot Make Any Rational Decision Between Options of the Same Value	Buridan's Ass	17%
A Thought Experiment Critique of the Turing Test, in Which You are Locked in Room with Chinese Characters and an English Codebook Outlining "What Character to Use in Response to What Input," and You Must Respond to Chinese Messages Using the Codebook, Doing so Well that the Chinese Messagers Believe You are Native Chinese When You Aren't.	Chinese Room	17%
Thought Experiment in Cartesian Skepticism About a Villain Mastermind Who Created a Complete Illusion of the External World	Evil Demon	17%
Thought Experiment About an Individual Who is Forced to Push a Boulder Up a Mountain for Eternity but is Happy Illustrating Revolt Against a Meaningless Existence or Absurdism	Myth of Sisyphus	17%
Thought Experiment About a Microscopic Kettle Somewhere in Space Between Earth and Mars Demonstrating that the Burden of Proof is on the One Making Unsubstantiated Claims, Rather than Shifting the Burden of Disproof to Others.	Russel's Teapot	17%

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