Suppose that Joseph Brown is a U.S. diplomat who works in Country X, and he is trying to assess whether Country X poses a threat to the United States
The diplomat gathers evidence that Country X poses a threat, but he does not try to gather evidence that Country X does not pose a threat. This error is called
a. the failure to transfer knowledge to a new task.
b. the belief-bias effect.
c. the anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic.
d. the confirmation bias.
Ans: d
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