Julie Works Part-Time for Economic Reasons

question 125

Multiple Choice

Julie works part-time for economic reasons. She would be considered

• A)an involuntary part-time worker.
• B)unemployed as calculated by the Bureau of Labor statistics.
• C)not in the labor force.
• D)a job seeker.
• E)a discouraged worker.

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Definitions:

Authority

A right or power assigned to an individual or organization to make decisions and enforce rules.

Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias describes the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities.

Availability Heuristic

This is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Representativeness Bias

A cognitive bias where individuals judge the probability of an event by how much it resembles their existing stereotypes or expectations, rather than based on actual statistical evidence.