Evolutionary Theorists Maintain That Many Human Errors in Reasoning Would

question 101

Multiple Choice

Evolutionary theorists maintain that many human errors in reasoning would vanish if ther problems are presented in terms of

• A) base rates and probabilities, rather than raw frequencies.
• B) both raw frequencies and base rates.
• C) neither raw frequencies nor base rates.
• D) raw frequencies, rather than base rates and probabilities.

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