What Are Heuristics

question 8

Multiple Choice

What are heuristics?

• A) mental frameworks that allow us to individuate information and think it through carefully and thoroughly
• B) rules of thumb that allow people to make judgments quickly
• C) highly useful techniques to avoid biases in thinking
• D) our hunches, intuition, memory, or gut feeling
• E) all of the above

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Definitions:

Sample Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a sample dataset, calculating how much the sample data points deviate from the sample mean.

Equal

Being the same in value, quantity, or measure between two or more entities or conditions.

Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies how much a set of data diverges from its mean value.

Northern States

Geographic region consisting of states located in the northern part of a country, often characterized by specific climatic, cultural, or political attributes.