You Are Taking a University Course with a Combined Graduate

Multiple Choice

You are taking a university course with a combined graduate and undergraduate enrollment. You know that there are many more undergraduate than graduate students enrolled in this course. There is a woman who looks to be about thirty sitting next to you. If you use only the base rate to guess her student status, you would guess that she is a(n) __________ student because __________.

A) graduate; she's older
B) undergraduate; you have a bias to expect undergraduates in your courses
C) graduate; she fits your schema for graduate students
D) undergraduate; there are more of them enrolled in the class