According to the discussion of the availability heuristic,
a. this heuristic is consistently more accurate than the representativeness heuristic.
b. we use this heuristic when we try to estimate probability by thinking of relevant examples.
c. this heuristic emphasizes that we ignore the conjunction fallacy.
d. this heuristic explains why we typically provide confidence intervals that are too narrow.
Ans: b
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