Collier is leafing through a stack of questionnaires that have been completed by adult males in a research study. One respondent has listed his height as 6 feet, 5 inches, but the occupation is difficult to read. It might be basketball player or bank president. Collier decides it must be basketball player and enters that information into the computer. In this case, Collier has probably based his
decision on:
a. the representativeness heuristic
b. the availability heuristic
c. anchoring and adjustment
d. a means-ends analysis of the data
A
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