Suppose you have a friend who is just beginning college, and she plans to go to school half-time. She estimates that she will earn her bachelor's degree in about 7 years, rather than 8 years. It is most likely that she
a. is avoiding the use of the recognition heuristic.
b. is using a syllogism inappropriately.
c. is falling victim to the planning fallacy.
d. should make better use of conditional reasoning.
c. is falling victim to the planning fallacy.
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The US Census Bureau collected data on family composition and found that samples from different parts of the country gave very different results for the mean number of family members living in households. If all of the data were combined to one data set,
a. the standard deviation of number of family members would probably be very small. b. the standard deviation of number of family members would probably be relatively high. c. the interquartile range would be small. d. the median would equal the mean.