You are taking a university course with a combined graduate and undergraduate enrollment. You know that there are many more undergraduate than graduate students enrolled in this course. There is a woman who looks to be about thirty sitting next to you
If you use only the base rate to guess her student status, you would guess that she is a(n) ________ student because ________.
a. graduate; she's older
b. undergraduate; you have a bias to expect undergraduates in your courses
c. graduate; she fits your schema for graduate students
d. undergraduate; there are more of them enrolled in the class
Answer: D
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