Multiple Choice
Many people were convinced that Ethan had psychic abilities after he identified the park where the body of a missing person was eventually found. However, they failed to take into account the hundreds of times Ethan made predictions that were false. This example illustrates the:
A) belief-bias effect.
B) confirmation bias.
C) overestimation effect.
D) fallacy of positive instances.
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