Multiple Choice
One study asked college students to predict the likelihood of experiencing different personal life events. The researchers found that students' accuracy in making predictions was unrelated to how certain they were about their predictions. This is an example of
A) overconfidence
B) the belief bias
C) framing
D) the availability heuristic
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