Suppose You Had Somebody Guess How a Sequence of 10

question 42

Multiple Choice

Suppose you had somebody guess how a sequence of 10 coin flips would play itself out (e.g. ,THTHHHTHHT) .If people did this task,they would tend to ____ the number of alternations,due to their reliance on the ______ heuristic.

• A)overestimate;availability
• B)overestimate;representativeness
• C)underestimate;availability
• D)underestimate;representativeness

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Definitions:

Sample Data

A subset of data collected from a larger population, used to make inferences or predictions about the population.

Hypotheses

Propositions or statements made for the purpose of testing through research and experimentation, often predicting a particular relationship between variables.

Chi-square Goodness-of-fit

A statistical test to determine if observed data fits a particular expected distribution.

P-value

A statistical measure that helps scientists determine the significance of their research results, indicating the probability of observing the collected data, or something more extreme, if the null hypothesis were true.