Which of these generalizations about decision making is false?
(a) People often produce relatively few options for action, even in situations
in which many options could be produced
(b) People often consider too many possible states of the world
(c) People assess frequencies and probabilities of events by using a set of
rules of thumb which usually work pretty well, but which sometimes
produce wildly inappropriate results
(d) People's assessments of utilities are affected by the measuring instrument
B
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