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Expert Overconfidence

This game comes from Decision Traps by Russo and Schoemaker

   
Read the following statements and see if you can identify who said them and when.
1. "That idea [that airplanes could sink battleships by dropping bombs on them] is so ... nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nitwit tries to hit it from the air." ...
2. "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." ...
3. "Reagan doesn't have the presidential look." ...
4. "A severe depression like that of 1920-1921 is outside the range of probability." ...
5. "We know on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years, the world did not exist." ...
6. "[It would be] impossible! [that Cassius Clay could last six rounds in his upcoming bout with World Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston in 1964.]" ...