The Wason Selection Task seems simple yet people do badly. One explanation is that we fail due to confirmation bias (Video 2.1). We ask the wrong question. Rather than asking which card, if flipped,...

Extracted text: The Wason Selection Task seems simple yet people do badly. One explanation is that we fail due to confirmation bias (Video 2.1). We ask the wrong question. Rather than asking which card, if flipped, might disconfirm the rule (break it) we ask which card, if flipped, might confirm it (follow it.) This wastes a flip when the hidden face will fit the rule (not break it) no matter what it turns out to be. Here is a set of cards: 8 And here is a rule: If the card has a number on one side it has a colored shape on the other. Suppose someone makes the mistake just described. Which card(s) would they wrongly flip, looking for a card that 'looks like' the rule, even though that doesn't matter? Don't answer with all the cards they would flip, right and wrong. Just the tempting wrong one(s). Was that confusing? Let me rephrase. The mistake is to flip a 'useless' card - useless for test purposes. That would be: any card that can't break the rule no matter what. Which card(s) would be useless like that? 8. Cat. Green triangle, blue star. Green triangle, blue star, 8. 8, cat.