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Suppose that a doctor decides that a patient has a cold,rather than a much rarer disease,Disease X.She decides the disease is a cold,even though one symptom is fairly typical of Disease X and fairly atypical of a cold.This doctor is


A) paying attention to the base rate of the diseases.
B) showing the confirmation bias.
C) demonstrating the small-sample fallacy.
D) combining the availability heuristic with the representativeness heuristic.

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