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You and your friend just met a woman at the bookstore, and she recommended a very good book to you. You guess, based on her appearance and demeanour, that she is a teacher. Your friend suggests that she is a teacher and also a writer. What should you think about your friend's suggestion?


▸ Your friend has used an availability heuristic to decide that the woman must be a writer as well as a teacher.

▸ It's a very good idea, because being a teacher increases the likelihood that she is also a writer.

▸ Your friend has used the conjunction fallacy, assuming that the odds of two events occurring together are more likely than the odds of either event happening alone.

▸ Your friend has just used the representativeness heuristic to arrive at a conclusion.
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