Seventy Percent of the Students in a Classroom Are Women

question 65

Multiple Choice

Seventy percent of the students in a classroom are women and 30 percent are men. One student is described as ambitious, athletic, and assertive. Why are most people likely to think this description refers to a male student?

• A) They are using the availability heuristic.
• B) They are using the representativeness heuristic.
• C) People seek only confirming information.
• D) People tend to make relative comparisons.

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Definitions:

P(A|B)

The chance that event A will occur, assuming event B has occurred, indicative of a conditional probability.

P(B)

The probability of occurrence of event B in a statistical experiment.

P(A And B)

The likelihood that events A and B will happen simultaneously.

Independent Events

Two or more events are independent if the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of the other(s).