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  1. 1According to UnSpun 1, SPIN is
    1. AThe art of deception, from subtle omissions to outright lies
    2. B The art of telling a good story, spinning a yarn
    3. CThe art of weaving yarn to make a nice sweater
    4. DThe amount of rotational velocity on a curveball
  2. 2According to UnSpun 2, the general habit of Democrats to promise great social programs without talking much about the price tag, and the Republicans general habit of talking about tax cuts without mentioning painful cuts to popular social programs, exemplifies
    1. AThe "Pay You Tuesday" Con
    2. BThe Blame Game
    3. CThe Superlatives Swindle
    4. D If it's scary, be wary
  3. 3According to UnSpun 3, the problem of the "Average Bear" shows us that
    1. AWe must often be careful about which sense of a key term someone is using
    2. BWe must always be very careful around bears
    3. C We shouldn't try to compare a bear to a lion or a bull
    4. DNo single bear is exactly average, even though we can compute an average
  4. 4According to UnSpun 3, weasel words are words that
    1. AWeasely people use a lot to kiss up
    2. BSuck the meaning out of a phrase or sentence
    3. C Deceive us with overly emotive meaning
    4. DMisname something, leaving a false impression
  5. 5According to UnSpun 4, confirmation bias is
    1. AA biased attitude toward people who confirm something you've said
    2. BA bias favoring people who have confirmed their beliefs
    3. CA biased attitude against confirming any beliefs at all
    4. DA bias gathering only confirming evidence and avoiding or dismissing negative evidence
  6. 6According to UnSpun 4, people hold dogmatically to irrational beliefs frequently as a
    1. A Psychological coping mechanism
    2. BPsychological trick to convince others of a belief
    3. CSociological method of gaining peer acceptance
    4. DPsychological repression mechanism
    5. EAll of the above
    6. FNone of the above
  7. 7According to UnSpun 4, the "Close Call" trap results from
    1. AOur tendency to ignore the differences between things when it's a very close call
    2. BOur tendency to exaggerate the differences between things when it's a very close call
    3. COur tendency to mistake very big differences in some cases as being very close calls
    4. DOur tendency to make things that are very different more similar until they become a very close call
  8. 8According to UnSpun 4, the "Pictures in Our Heads" trap consists mainly of relying on
    1. AWishful thinking
    2. BStereotypes
    3. CEgocentrism
    4. DSuperstition
    5. EShort-term thinking
  9. 9Identify this passage: "All the jurors are in the jury room, therefore Shawna is in the jury room, because she's on the jury."
    1. AArgument
    2. BIllustration (by example)
    3. CExplanation
    4. DReport
    5. EConditional statement
  10. 10Identify this passage: "Student fees are going up because the state's revenues are down and the governor refuses to raise taxes.
    1. AArgument
    2. BIllustration (by example)
    3. CExplanation
    4. DReport
    5. EConditional statement

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