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In 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported four diagnoses of the Ebola virus in the United States. Three of the patients recovered, although one person unfortunately died from the disease. Nonetheless, people nationwide feared for their health and safety, although the probability of any one individual contracting the disease was extremely small. Which barriers to reasoning rationally help explain this panicked reaction?
a)  the affect heuristic and the availability heuristic
b)  the fairness bias and the hindsight bias
c)  the hindsight bias and the confirmation bias
d)  the bias blind spot and the hindsight bias
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