The base rate fallacy describes the tendency to ignore _______________ in favour of ______________.

a) internal attributions; external attributions
b) complex judgements; simple rules of thumb
c) statistical information; representative information
d) the generally populations opinion; one’s own opinion


CORRECT = C

Psychology

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