When you ask people what caused more deaths — accidents and homicides or strokes and diabetes — people will guess accidents and homicides, even though it's strokes and diabetes (and it's not even really close). This is most likely due to:
a) the availability heuristic.
b) confirmatory bias.
c) the representativeness heuristic.
d) an atmosphere effect.
Answer: a
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