Even When People Are Shown Nothing but a Random Mix

question 87

Multiple Choice

Even when people are shown nothing but a random mix of results, they still like to believe one outcome is more likely than the other. This is tendency illustrates a concept known as

• A) the self-fulfilling prophecy.
• B) the representativeness heuristic.
• C) illusory correlation.
• D) social overconfidence.

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