Research on the Conjunction Fallacy Shows That

question 11

Multiple Choice

Research on the conjunction fallacy shows that

• A)people pay more attention to statistical probability than to heuristic strategies.
• B)people pay too much attention to sample size.
• C)people sometimes believe that the probability of a combination of two attributes is statistically more likely than the probability of one of those attributes.
• D)people simply misunderstand the instructions because the material is so vivid; when the task is explained,the conjunction fallacy disappears.

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