Suppose That a Doctor Decides That a Patient Has a Cold,rather

question 71

Multiple Choice

Suppose that a doctor decides that a patient has a cold,rather than a much rarer disease,Disease X.She decides the disease is a cold,even though one symptom is fairly typical of Disease X and fairly atypical of a cold.This doctor is

• A)paying attention to the base rate of the diseases.
• B)showing the confirmation bias.
• C)demonstrating the small-sample fallacy.
• D)combining the availability heuristic with the representativeness heuristic.

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