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Melissa Is an Attractive Woman Who Lives in Ottawa and Loves

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Melissa is an attractive woman who lives in Ottawa and loves hockey.When asked to predict if it were probable that she was a schoolteacher or a season ticket holder for the Ottawa Senators,most people selected the latter,even though there are more schoolteachers than there are season ticket holders in Ottawa.This is an illustration of:


A) hindsight bias.
B) the representativeness heuristic.
C) base-rate decision making.
D) the sunk-cost fallacy.

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