Multiple Choice
News reports often emphasize events that are very rare, like plane crashes or winning the lottery, and that emphasis causes those events to be memorable and pop into our minds easily. Which cognitive bias would be worsened by this sort of media attention?
A) algorithms
B) hindsight bias
C) availability heuristic
D) representativeness heuristic
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