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Title: Which of the following is not attributed to faulty use of the representativeness heuristic?
Post by: blahfuk5 on Mar 19, 2018
Which of the following is not attributed to faulty use of the representativeness heuristic?
 
  a. It ignores differential media coverage.
  b. It ignores sample size.
  c. It ignores prior probabilities.
  d. It may lead to faulty conceptions of randomness.

Question 2

Two factors that influence the representativeness heuristic are
 
  a. prior probability and sample size. c. expected utility and expected value.
  b. media attention and retrieval access. d. None of these

Question 3

When subjects are told the number of engineers in a sample of 100 people and are given a personality description of an individual from that sample, they estimate the probability that the selected individual is an engineer by using
 
  a. the number of engineers in the sample.
  b. the personality description.
  c. Both the number of engineers in the sample and the personality description
  d. Neither the number of engineers in the sample nor the personality description


Title: Which of the following is not attributed to faulty use of the representativeness heuristic?
Post by: anu30 on Mar 19, 2018
Answer to q. 1

A

Answer to q. 2

A

Answer to q. 3

B