Scout Mindset Calibration Practice

This is a tool to automatically score your calibration on the questions from Julia Galef's The Scout Mindset calibration exercise. Please support the author by purchasing The Scout Mindset.

For each question, select both the answer you think is correct, and the confidence level that best matches your level of confidence. You do not need to answer every question, but the more you answer, the more useful your results will be.

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The elephant is the world's largest mammal.		True		False						Reset
Sea otters sometimes hold hands while they sleep.		True		False						Reset
Centipedes have more legs than any other animal.		True		False						Reset
Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted.		True		False						Reset
Bears can't climb trees.		True		False						Reset
Camels store water in their humps.		True		False						Reset
Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp.		True		False						Reset
The giant panda eats mostly bamboo.		True		False						Reset
The platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs.		True		False						Reset
A mule is a cross between a male donkey and a female horse.		True		False						Reset

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Which historical figure was born first?		Julius Caesar		Confucius						Reset
Which historical figure was born first?		Fidel Castro		Mahatma Gandhi						Reset
Which historical figure was born first?		Nelson Mandella		Anne Frank						Reset
Which historical figure was born first?		Cleopatra		Muhammad						Reset
Which historical figure was born first?		William Shakespeare		Joan of Arc						Reset
Which historical figure was born first?		George Washington		Sun Tzu						Reset
Which historical figure was born first?		Genghis Khan		Leonardo da Vinci						Reset
Which historical figure was born first?		Queen Victoria		Karl Marx						Reset
Which historical figure was born first?		Saddam Hussein		Marilyn Monroe						Reset
Which historical figure was born first?		Albert Einstein		Mao Zedong						Reset

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Which country had more people in 2020?		Germany		France						Reset
Which country had more people in 2020?		Japan		South Korea						Reset
Which country had more people in 2020?		Brazil		Argentina						Reset
Which country had more people in 2020?		Egypt		Botswana						Reset
Which country had more people in 2020?		Mexico		Guatemala						Reset
Which country had more people in 2020?		Panama		Belize						Reset
Which country had more people in 2020?		Jamaica		Haiti						Reset
Which country had more people in 2020?		Greece		Norway						Reset
Which country had more people in 2020?		China		India						Reset
Which country had more people in 2020?		Iraq		Iran						Reset

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Mars has one moon, just like Earth.		True		False						Reset
Scurvy is caused by a deficit of vitamin C.		True		False						Reset
Brass is made from iron and copper.		True		False						Reset
One tablespoon of oil has more calories than one tablespoon of butter.		True		False						Reset
Helium is the lightest element.		True		False						Reset
The common cold is caused by bacteria		True		False						Reset
The deepest place on Earth is in the Pacific Ocean.		True		False						Reset
Seasons are caused by the Earth orbiting the sun in an elliptical path.		True		False						Reset
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system.		True		False						Reset
The atoms in a solid are more densely packed than the atoms in a gas.		True		False						Reset

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