The Frequency Format Hypothesis Suggests That People Are Better Able

question 105

Multiple Choice

The frequency format hypothesis suggests that people are better able to work with information presented as frequencies than presented as probabilities. Why might this be the case?

• A)Human brains evolved to process frequencies explicitly and probabilities implicitly.
• B)Human brains evolved to notice how often things occur, not how likely they are to occur.
• C)Human brains evolved to process frequencies in the left hemisphere and probabilities in the right hemisphere.
• D)Probability calculation is a more difficult cognitive task because it necessarily involves the manipulation of symbols.

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