What Is One of the Difficulties with the Availability Heuristic

question 55

Multiple Choice

What is one of the difficulties with the availability heuristic?

• A) It seldom leads to a correct decision in everyday life.
• B) Frequency estimation may be distorted by the familiarity of the examples.
• C) People rely too much on adjustments and not enough on the anchor.
• D) People rely too much on abstract evidence, rather than concrete evidence.

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