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bobbysung

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The representativeness heuristic is a rule used to estimate the likelihood of an event based on how well it fits with your expectations of a model for that event.
 
  Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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Work by Tversky and Kahneman suggests that providing descriptive information about people results in a greater use of base rate information .
 
  Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: True

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