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Demonstration
1 cont'd
The
names in bold black letters are all females. Note that there are
9 females vs. 7 males. Did you guess this? If not, then you just
experienced how the availability heuristic may fail you in making
decisions such as this.
| • Bill
Clinton |
• Theresa
Smith |
| • Dorothy
Miller |
• Dwight
D. Eisenhower |
| • John
F. Kennedy |
• Laura
Potter |
| • Maria
Brown |
• Ruth
Ingram |
| • Theodore
Roosevelt |
• Jimmy
Carter |
| • Harry
S. Truman |
• Gerald
Ford |
| • Sharon
Smith |
• Ruth
White |
| • Gloria
Black |
• Amy
Jones |
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