For Many Years, Newspapers Often Mentioned the Race of Criminal

Multiple Choice

For many years, newspapers often mentioned the race of criminal suspects who were NOT white in the article detailing their crimes. This often led people who were not obviously biased or prejudiced to conclude that more non-whites committed crimes than whites. This is one example of

A) the confirmation bias.
B) the hindsight bias.
C) an illusory correlation.
D) the representativeness heuristic.