A friend tells you that drama majors tend to be extremely disorganized. However, when you actually make a tally of 10 friends who are drama majors and 20 friends who are not, you find no relationship. Your friend's error was most likely to be an example o
a. the hindsight bias.
b. an illusory correlation.
c. the framing effect.
d. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
Ans: b
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