Business Managers Are Often Overly Confident of Their Own Hiring

question 190

Multiple Choice

Business managers are often overly confident of their own hiring ability because they are more likely to monitor the successes of people they hired than the achievements of those they rejected.This illustrates that overconfidence may be facilitated by

• A) an algorithm.
• B) prototypes.
• C) the framing effect.
• D) confirmation bias.

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