Each Semester, You Repeatedly Underestimate How Long It Will Take

question 107

Multiple Choice

Each semester, you repeatedly underestimate how long it will take you to complete a research paper that is due at the end of the term. Your behavior is an example of the

• A) perseverance bias.
• B) fundamental attribution error.
• C) correspondence bias.
• D) overconfidence phenomenon.

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Definitions:

Probability Sampling

A sampling method in which every member of the population has a known, non-zero chance of being selected, ensuring representativeness and allowing for the calculation of sampling error.

Systematic Sampling

A probability sampling method in which we randomly select one of the first k elements and then select every kth element thereafter.

Sample Proportion

The fraction of the sample that represents a particular outcome or characteristic.

Dormitories

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