If I Tell You That Someone I Know Is a Man

question 112

Multiple Choice

If I tell you that someone I know is a man who has a beard,drinks wine,and likes to read poetry,and you guess that he is more likely to be a classics professor than a construction worker,you are

• A) paying too much attention to base rate information.
• B) being misled by the availability heuristic.
• C) probably correct.
• D) falling victim to the representativeness heuristic.
• E) probably not familiar with classics professors.

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