Multiple Choice
Nutz and Boltz, Inc., employs one hundred people; eighty are lawyers and twenty are engineers. Albert, a lawyer at the company, is quiet, likes puzzles, and carries a calculator. Most people, when asked whether Albert is a lawyer or an engineer, will guess that he is an engineer. These people are using __________ to make this faulty guess. A correct guess would have been made if they had used __________.
A) the representativeness heuristic; base rate information
B) base rate information; the representativeness heuristic
C) the representativeness heuristic; the availability heuristic
D) base rate information; anchoring and adjustment
Correct Answer:
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Correct Answer:
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