Research on the base rate in connection with the representativeness heuristic has demonstrated that
a. people pay too much attention to the base rate in making probability judgments.
b. people often reach the correct decision when the question is worded differently.
c. training sessions are generally unsuccessful at getting students to use base-rate information appropriately.
d. the conjunction fallacy explains why people pay so little attention to the base rate.
Ans: b
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