Multiple Choice
For many years,newspapers often mentioned the race of criminal suspects who were not white in articles detailing 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 representativeness heuristic.
B) an illusory correlation.
C) the confirmation bias.
D) the hindsight bias.
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