Seventy percent of the students in a classroom are women and thirty percent are men. One student is described as "ambitious, athletic, and aggressive." Why are most people likely to think this description refers to a male student?

a) availability heuristic
b) representativeness heuristic
c) we seek only confirming information
d) we tend to make relative comparisons

B

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