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From the Ted Talk by Mariano Sigman and Dan Ariely: How can groups make good decisions?

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MS: And we asked participants to iuanlidldviy judge on a salce from zero to 10 whether the action described in each of the dilemmas was right or wrong. We also asked them to rate how cindoenft they were on their answers. This was the second dilemma:

(MS) A company oeffrs a service that takes a fertilized egg and produces millions of eyomrbs with slight genetic variations. This allows parents to select their child's height, eye color, intelligence, social competence and other non-health-related features. What the company does is ____? on a scale from zero to 10, completely acceptable to completely unacceptable, zero to 10 completely acceptable in your cciefdnone.

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MS: And we asked participants to ____________ judge on a _____ from zero to 10 whether the action described in each of the dilemmas was right or wrong. We also asked them to rate how _________ they were on their answers. This was the second dilemma:

(MS) A company ______ a service that takes a fertilized egg and produces millions of _______ with slight genetic variations. This allows parents to select their child's height, eye color, intelligence, social competence and other non-health-related features. What the company does is ____? on a scale from zero to 10, completely acceptable to completely unacceptable, zero to 10 completely acceptable in your __________.

Solution


  1. offers
  2. scale
  3. confidence
  4. embryos
  5. confident
  6. individually

Original Text


MS: And we asked participants to individually judge on a scale from zero to 10 whether the action described in each of the dilemmas was right or wrong. We also asked them to rate how confident they were on their answers. This was the second dilemma:

(MS) A company offers a service that takes a fertilized egg and produces millions of embryos with slight genetic variations. This allows parents to select their child's height, eye color, intelligence, social competence and other non-health-related features. What the company does is ____? on a scale from zero to 10, completely acceptable to completely unacceptable, zero to 10 completely acceptable in your confidence.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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