Rupert, Who Leads the Design Team in an Automobile Firm

question 70

Multiple Choice

Rupert, who leads the design team in an automobile firm, decides not to invest in a particular technology that helps to improve the fuel efficiency of cars, as other automobile companies who had invested in similar technologies had not achieved much success. The type of decision-making error made by Rupert is known as _____.

• A) availability bias
• B) confirmation error
• C) adjustment bias
• D) lack-of-participation error
• E) representativeness bias

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Real Income Per Capita

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