The tendency to incorrectly estimate that more people die from accidents and homicides than from strokes and diabetes best illustrates the influence of:

a. the availability heuristic.
b. confirmation bias.
c. the framing effect.
d. the representativeness heuristic.
e. fixations.

Answer: a. the availability heuristic.

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