Professor Emil Was Shocked to Learn That Almost 25% of Her

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Multiple Choice

Professor Emil was shocked to learn that almost 25% of her statistics class submitted their final project online days past the due date. Interestingly enough, Professor Emil never received emails from her students suggesting that there was any concern about having enough time to complete the project. This suggests that students waited until the last minute to start the project. As a result, they likely underestimated the amount of time it would take to complete Professor Emil's comprehensive, multi-step statistics project. By students thinking they could complete the entire project in an abbreviated amount of time, they demonstrated the:

• A) overconfidence phenomenon.
• B) representativeness heuristic.
• C) availability heuristic.
• D) hindsight bias.

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