Multiple Choice
If you polled some friends from Edmonton, who read the local news on a regular basis, about the number of murders in their city, and you poll friends in other areas of the country about the number of murders in the entire province of Alberta, you'd likely find that the average number of murders estimated for Edmonton is more than for the entire province. This impossible finding is best explained by the
A) representativeness heuristic.
B) availability heuristic.
C) hindsight bias.
D) confirmation bias.
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