The Representativeness Heuristic Is a Bias to Make Decisions Based

question 63

Multiple Choice

The representativeness heuristic is a bias to make decisions based on __________.

• A)how closely one outcome resembles the population of possible outcomes
• B)whether an option is represented in the set of possible outcomes
• C)how well one can represent the choice to other people
• D)the degree to which a choice represents a correct answer

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