When people use the representativeness heuristic to estimate probabilities for events, they base their estimates on:
a. the ease with which examples can be brought to mind
b. the similarity between the event in question and their prototype
c. the difference between the event in question and their starting estimate
d. mathematical calculations of the expected value
B
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