Suppose That You Are Assigning Eight College Students to Two

question 87

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are assigning eight college students to two committees.By chance,one committee has four students from the social sciences,and the other has four students from the humanities.If people protest that this arrangement does not seem to be random,they are following

• A)the confirmation bias.
• B)the base-rate fallacy.
• C)the availability heuristic.
• D)the representativeness heuristic.

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