Failure to Actively Seek Out Contrary Evidence May Lead to

question 184

Multiple Choice

Failure to actively seek out contrary evidence may lead to

• A) overestimating the improbable.
• B) the conjunction fallacy.
• C) the gambler's fallacy.
• D) the confirmation bias.

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