Seventy percent of the students in a classroom are women and thirty percent are men. One student is described as "ambitious, athletic, and aggressive." Why are most people likely to think this description refers to a male student?
a) availability heuristic
b) representativeness heuristic
c) we seek only confirming information
d) we tend to make relative comparisons
B
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A. choose a justice-based response B. choose an interpersonal response C. try to avoid choosing any response D. reject both justice-based and interpersonal responses
The symbol s represents the standard deviation for _____
a. a sample b. the unbiased estimator of the population standard deviation c. a population d. none of the above
The general potential to solve problems, adapt, and profit from experience is called a. ability
b. achievement. c. prediction. d. intelligence.
The closer the______ line comes to the data points overall, the better the linear equation will describe the data.
A. slope B. curve C. best fit D. intercept