The Life Expectancy E, in Years, for a Child Born

question 30

Multiple Choice

The life expectancy E, in years, for a child born t years after 2000 is given by . In what birth year would a child have a life expectancy of 78.06 years?
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• A) 2010
• B) 2008
• C) 2006
• D) That life expectancy never occurs.

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Definitions:

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to view events and people in ways that fit how we want and expect them to be.

Causal Attribution

The process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events, attributing them to internal dispositions or external situations.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency for observers to overestimate personality or dispositional causes for someone else's behavior and underestimate situational influences.

Ease of Retrieval Effect

The phenomenon where individuals judge the frequency or likelihood of an event based on how easily examples of the event come to mind.