One Major Consequence of the Planning Fallacy Is That

question 266

Multiple Choice

One major consequence of the planning fallacy is that

• A)people may spend more resources to insure themselves against rare events, but leave themselves uninsured against more common events.
• B)someone could persist in pursuing a failed policy despite overwhelming evidence of the failure.
• C)major business projects may create bottlenecks in the organization because they are not completed as scheduled.
• D)some people may wrongly believe in their forecasting ability to predict future outcomes of risky investments.

Demonstrate an understanding of loop control statements such as break and continue.

Know how to use and the importance of initializing variables in loops.

Understand accumulation operations and their syntax in loops.

Learn about EOF marks and their generation in different operating systems.

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