Suppose that you hear about a friend who graduated from your college in performing arts. In addition, suppose that you judge that she is more likely to be selling insurance and active in community theater than she is to be selling insurance
You have committed
a. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
b. the crystal-ball technique.
c. the belief-bias effect.
d. the conjunction fallacy.
Ans: d
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Juan is taking a creativity test in which he is asked to come up with ways of utilizing the billions of plastic containers discarded each year. He is taking the
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