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Test Your Investing Confidence II

Investing Overconfidence

Now that you've tested your confidence level once, take a few minutes to answer these ten questions to see how well you apply lessons from the first challenge.


For each question, provide a low and high guess such that you are 90% sure the correct answer falls between the two. Your challenge is to be neither too narrow (overconfident) nor too wide (underconfident). We'll tell you whether your score suggests you're too overconfident.

 

After the first quiz, you’ll have the opportunity to take another quiz to see if you can improve your score.

 

 

 

 

Questions

1.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in April 2000

low   high

2. Revenues of Wal-Mart Stores in fiscal year 2007 (in billions of dollars)

low   high

3. Number of Toyota manufacturing locations in North America

low   high

4. Number of nations attending the Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire in 1944 to formulate a post–World War II international monetary system

low   high

5. Year of publication of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

low   high

6. Weight (in pounds) of Mars rover Spirit

low   high

7.Year Watson and Crick proposed the double-helix structure of DNA

low  high

8. Year of first space walk (Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov)

low   high

9. Year Michelangelo completed the statue of David

low   high

10. Year the movie The Shining, based on the Stephen King book, was released

low   high

 



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