Suppose that a doctor decides that a patient has a cold, rather than a much rarer disease, Disease X. She decides the disease is a cold, even though one symptom is fairly typical of Disease X and fairly atypical of a cold. This doctor is
a. paying attention to the base rate of the diseases.
b. showing the confirmation bias.
c. demonstrating the small-sample fallacy.
d. combining the availability heuristic with the representativeness heuristic.
Ans: a
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