Even though he knows only a small percentage of high school athletes go on to professional careers, Charlie believes that he will receive a scholarship to play football in college and then will have a career in the NFL. Charlie is

a. not applying base rates to himself.
b. applying base rates to himself.
c. not applying the conjunction fallacy.
d. applying the conjunction fallacy.


A

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