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Suppose that you are assigning eight college students to two committees. By chance, one committee has four students from the social sciences, and the other has four students from the humanities.
 
  If people protest that this arrangement does not seem to be random, they are following
   a. the confirmation bias.
   b. the base-rate fallacy.
   c. the availability heuristic.
   d. the representativeness heuristic.

Question 2

Heuristics in decision making
 
  a. may become a liability when they are applied inappropriately.
  b. always lead us to the correct decision.
  c. are mathematical formulas that precisely predict how people will perform on decision-making tasks.
  d. are helpful in decision-making situations, but people rarely apply them



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blfontai

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Answer to Question 1

Ans: d

Answer to Question 2

Ans: a




Sportsfan2111

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Excellent


mochi09

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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