Psychologists have published an article which shows that many U.S. residents avoided flying in airplanes after the 2001 terrorist attacks. In fact, for several months afterwards, many people decided to drive, rather than fly
This phenomenon can best be explained by
a. the influence of recency on availability.
b. the conjunction fallacy.
c. the illusory-correlation effect.
d. too much emphasis on the likelihood ratio.
Ans: a
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