General Studies · Cognitive Psychology - Heuristics and Biases
Read the following Assertion (A) and Reason (R): Assertion (A): In a study, people judged the likelihood of finding a sample mean height greater than 6 feet to be equal for sample sizes of 1000, 100, and 10 men. Reason (R): Relying on the representativeness heuristic leads to insensitivity to sample size when evaluating the probability of a sample result. Which option is correct?
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- 1(A) is false, but (R) is true
- 2(A) is true, but (R) is false
- 3Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
- 4Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)✓
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Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
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