For Each Question, Indicate Which Heuristic It Describes

question 4

Multiple Choice

For each question, indicate which heuristic it describes:
-John is over seven feet tall.When asked whether John is a professional basketball player or a software programmer,many people predict the former,even though there are many more software programmers,even very tall ones,than professional basketball players.

• A)The representativeness heuristic.
• B)The availability heuristic.
• C)The confirmation heuristic.
• D)The affect heuristic.

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Definitions:

Population Proportions

A statistical measure that represents the fraction or percentage of units in a population that possess a certain trait or characteristic.

Upper Confidence Bound

The upper limit of a confidence interval, indicating the maximum value within which a population parameter is expected to lie with a certain probability.

Population Proportions

The ratio of members in a population that have a particular attribute to the total number of members in the population.

Z-Value

A measure that describes how far a data point is from the mean, expressed in standard deviations.