1-3 (Retrieval Quiz): Disappearances

Last updated over 1 year ago

16 questions

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A citizen journalist is a person who publishes their own news reports and is not part of a formal news company or network.

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A citizen journalist is a person who publishes their own news reports and is not part of a formal news company or network.

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False

Fang Bin published evidence that Covid was actually a weapon of war developed in a Chinese lab.

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Multiple citizen journalists who published reports about Covid went missing in China in 2020 and the following years.

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Fang Bin suggested that the Chinese government was covering up the truth about Covid.

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The U.S. government has never released an official report on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

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It has been proven that Amelia Earhart was taken captive by the Japanese since she was serving as a spy for the U.S. government. 

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There is a chance that Amelia Earhart could have survived her plane crash but then been eaten by giant coconut crabs.

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It would be relatively easy to find the truth about Amelia Earhart if someone was willing to fund it.

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One reason why conspiracy theories persist is that they are usually hard to disprove.

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Our brains are very good at handling uncertainty.

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We tend to create our own explanations for events when we feel uncertainty.

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Our brains naturally make connections between things, even if those connections don't end up being accurate.

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The principle of Occam's Razor proves that the most complex explanation of an event is usually the correct one.

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The more assumptions you need to make when developing an explanation for an event, the less likely it is for that explanation to turn out to be true.

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It has been proven that foul play was involved in the disappearance of Maura Murray.

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One major reason why Maura Murray's disappearance gained such attention was that it was one of the first disappearances of the "social media age."

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