A Professor Asks Students to Guess What Percent of People

question 85

Multiple Choice

A professor asks students to guess what percent of people in homeless shelters are parents and children. Before you can consider your answer, another student shouts out "about 10%." Your answer may be either higher or lower than it would be otherwise because of

• A) the belief-bias effect.
• B) the confirmation bias.
• C) the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
• D) the hindsight bias.