How Reasonable Is It for Someone to Rely on the Representativeness

question 76

Multiple Choice

How reasonable is it for someone to rely on the representativeness heuristic to make a quick judgment?

• A) Not reasonable at all-it is usually misleading
• B) Often perfectly reasonable, when there is no other information available
• C) Reasonable, when there is base rate information to refer to
• D) Somewhat reasonable, but only if you put considerable thought into it first

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