Most People Tend to Consider Themselves Better Than Average, or at Least

question 155

Multiple Choice

Most people tend to consider themselves better than average, or at least average, drivers. We do so because when we think of other drivers we most easily remember unusually bad drivers, and compare ourselves to them. In other words, we make a decision based on

• A) base-rate information.
• B) the availability heuristic.
• C) the representativeness heuristic.
• D) an algorithm.

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