One doctor tells you that you have a 10 percent chance of dying during the surgery, while another doctor tells you that you have a 90 percent chance of survival if you have the surgery. Understanding that you have the same survival odds means that you have not succumbed to

a. framing.
b. the underlying base rate.
c. the representativeness heuristic.
d. functional fixedness.


A

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