Research on the Availability Heuristic Shows That

question 97

Multiple Choice

Research on the availability heuristic shows that

• A) when medical journals contain many articles about a particular disease, physicians are likely to believe that it is easily curable.
• B) estimates for a country's population are distorted by the frequency with which the country is mentioned in the news.
• C) more recent events tend to be given relatively little weight in making frequency estimates, compared with events that occurred long ago.
• D) people almost always select answers that are consistent with deductive reasoning.

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