People Tend to Ignore the Base Rate of Some Occurrence

question 12

Multiple Choice

People tend to ignore the base rate of some occurrence in the population in making their judgments.For example,they assume anyone over 6 feet,6 inches tall must have played a lot of basketball,even though the majority of individuals have not played much basketball.This is a prime example of

• A)regression to the mean.
• B)the availability heuristic.
• C)the representativeness heuristic.
• D)anchoring and adjustment.

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