Two Groups of Participants Are Asked to Rate How Likely

question 3

Multiple Choice

Two groups of participants are asked to rate how likely it is a student will pass a physics exam. Group A is told that in the past only 30% of students have passed this test. Group B is told that this student is one of a sample of students, and among that sample, only 30% passed. Group B is more likely to:

• A) use base rates in their decision
• B) ignore the base-rate information
• C) imply a cause-and-effect relationship between the pass rate and the student being judged
• D) say the chance of the student passing is 0.3

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