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Gordon Jones Is Considering Purchasing a Computer from Best Buy

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Gordon Jones is considering purchasing a computer from Best Buy.He has created a scale whereby he has rated eight different computers on three different characteristics.Gordon has decided that for a computer to make his short-list,it must score at least a seven on his scale on all three characteristics.Describe the type of choice heuristic that Mr.Jones is using as he selects a computer.


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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Nominal Data

Data categorized into discrete groups or categories without any inherent order or ranking.

Biological Sex

Biological sex refers to the physical and physiological characteristics, such as chromosomes, hormone levels, and reproductive/sexual anatomy, that are typically used to classify individuals as male, female, or intersex.

Ordinal Data

A type of data which relates to quantities that have a natural order, but the intervals between values cannot be presumed to be equal.

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