Unsurelock the Detective Knows That One of 20 Suspects Has

question 237

Multiple Choice

Unsurelock the detective knows that one of 20 suspects has committed a crime. He proposes to administer a lie-detector test to all 20 and to arrest anyone who fails the test. Which error of thinking has he made?

• A) He has failed to distinguish between a hypothesis and a prototype.
• B) He has used the availability heuristic.
• C) He has used the representativeness heuristic.
• D) He has overlooked the base-rate information.

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