Assume That Congress Is Considering Revising Its Approach to Welfare

question 38

Multiple Choice

Assume that Congress is considering revising its approach to welfare and to this end is hearing a range of testimony. A member of Congress who uses the availability heuristic would be most likely to

• A)want to experiment with numerous possible approaches to see which of these seems to work best.
• B)want to cling to approaches to welfare that seem to have had some success in the past.
• C)refuse to be budged from his or her beliefs despite persuasive testimony to the contrary.
• D)base his or her ideas on the most vivid,memorable testimony given,even though many of the statistics presented run counter to this testimony.

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