When people commit the base-rate fallacy, they often
a. rely too heavily on the availability heuristic.
b. believe that the conjunction of two events is more likely than either event by itself.
c. pay too little attention to information about relative frequency.
d. are especially likely to demonstrate the hindsight bias.
Ans: c
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