An admissions director for a college decides to keep the existing admissions policy since 80% of the students admitted eventually graduate. Unknown to her, 90 percent of the rejected applicants would also have been successful graduates
Her decision- making process is hampered by ________.
a. the representativeness heuristic
b. the availability heuristic
c. hill-climbing
d. creating subgoals
Answer: b
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