Despite Overwhelming and Highly Publicized Evidence That Senator McEwan Was

question 56

Multiple Choice

Despite overwhelming and highly publicized evidence that Senator McEwan was guilty of serious political corruption and misconduct,many who had supported her in past elections remained convinced of her political integrity.Their reaction best illustrates

• A) the framing effect.
• B) the planning fallacy.
• C) belief perseverance.
• D) the availability heuristic.

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Definitions:

Starting Salaries

The initial amount of money that an employee earns annually when beginning a new job.

Standard Deviation

A system for evaluating the degree of dispersion or deviation among a collection of statistics.

Normally Distributed

A type of distribution in which data is symmetrically distributed with most of the observations clustering around the central peak and the probabilities for values further away from the mean tapering off equally on both sides.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values; a low standard deviation indicates that the values are close to the mean of the set.