Although there is a 50 percent divorce rate, people still readily get married every year. These decisions probably would not occur if people did not
a. ignore the base rate.
b. use the representative heuristic.
c. frame this event very broadly.
d. use a random search strategy for making decisions.
ANSWER: a
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