The chapter ends with a heuristic that is sort of a verbal analog of the 2 x 2 table
It said
(a) pay attention to how often the observed effect occurs in the presence of
the presumed cause
(b) pay attention to how often the observed effect occurs in the absence of the
presumed cause
(c) use representativeness in the presence of the presumed cause but
availability in the absence of the presumed cause
(d) both A and B
D
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