How confident should I be about certain sources of information?Always start by clicking on the "Show all questions" button (if visible). Note that some browsers will block the Quiz starting because of its "Active Content". You may have to click a Status Bar message that removes the block. When finished close this window and return to the main Rationale Browser.

How confident should I be about certain sources of information?
Always start by clicking on the "Show all questions" button (if visible). Note that some browsers will block the Quiz starting because of its "Active Content". You may have to click a Status Bar message that removes the block.

When finished close this window and return to the main Rationale Browser.

How sound would you judge the following sources of evidence to be? Do you consider these trustworthy sources of information?

If you answer wrongly you will get a hint, and two more chances to select the right answer. Make a note of your final score when you have finished the quiz, then close the quiz window to return to the Rationale Exercises.

Claim: Fatblasters tablets will magically melt away 10 kilos of flab overnight.

Basis: Assertion by Con Trapp, CEO of Fatblasters Inc.
1. Solid
2. Shaky
3. Nil
Claim: For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria.

Basis: Expert opinion from Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.
1. Solid
2. Shaky
3. Nil
Claim: The road from Hospet to Hampi used to pass by an old red shed with a green cow painted on it.

Basis: Assertion, made by my 90 year old grandfather who visited the area when he was 12 years old.
1. Solid
2. Shaky
3. Nil