Why Are We More Likely to Remember the Airplane Crash

question 28

Multiple Choice

Why are we more likely to remember the airplane crash that killed 143 people,but tend to forget the hundreds of people killed in car accidents last month in the United States?

• A) representative heuristic
• B) framing
• C) algorithm bias
• D) availability heuristic

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Definitions:

Random Variable

A variable whose possible values are numerical outcomes of a random phenomenon.

Poisson Distribution

A discrete frequency distribution which gives the probability of a number of independent events occurring in a fixed time.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, found by dividing the sum of all numbers by the count of numbers.

Discrete Probability Distribution

A statistical function that describes the likelihood of each possible outcome of a discrete random variable occurring.