In the example in which the relation between Hanta virus and a drug is explored,

suppose a person said that the key information was the number of Hanta-infected people
who received the drug and six months later were alive.

That might be considered an
example of the tendency to
(a) focus on positive information
(b) rely on the availability heuristic
(c) explain away contrary facts
(d) stay with the information given


A

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