People tend to ignore the base rate of some occurrence in the population in making their judgments
For example, they assume anyone over 6'6" must have played a lot of basketball, even thought the majority of individuals have not played much basketball. This is a prime example of:
a) regression to the mean.
b) the availability heuristic.
c) the representativeness heuristic.
d) anchoring and adjustment.
Answer: c
Psychology
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