When subjects are told the number of engineers in a sample of 100 people and are given a personality description of an individual from that sample, they estimate the probability that the selected individual is an engineer by using

a. the number of engineers in the sample.
b. the personality description.
c. Both the number of engineers in the sample and the personality description
d. Neither the number of engineers in the sample nor the personality description


B

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