Melissa is an attractive woman who lives in Ottawa and loves hockey. When asked to predict if it were probable that she was a schoolteacher or a season ticket holder for the Ottawa Senators, most people selected the latter, even though there are more schoolteachers than there are season ticket holders in Ottawa. This is an illustration of:
A) hindsight bias.
B) the representativeness heuristic.
C) base-rate decision making.
D) the sunk-cost fallacy.
B) the representativeness heuristic.
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