If You Polled Some Friends from Edmonton About the Number

question 160

Multiple Choice

If you polled some friends from Edmonton about the number of murders in this capital city,and other friends about the number of murders in the entire province of Alberta,you'd likely find that the average number of murders estimated for Edmonton is more than for the entire province.This impossible finding is best explained by the

• A)representativeness heuristic.
• B)availability heuristic.
• C)hindsight bias.
• D)confirmation bias.

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