Pat Murphy, a police officer of Irish ethnic background, is a black belt in karate and smokes cigars. On the basis of which rule of thumb do we assume that Pat is male?
A)Availability heuristic
B)Representativeness heuristic
C)Anchoring and adjustment heuristic
D)Means-end analysis

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The representativeness heuristic is the rule of thumb that we use to make judgments about the likelihood of an event based on how closely the event matches our expectation of a typical example of that event. In this case, the typical example of a police officer, black belt in karate, and cigar smoker is more likely to be male, leading us to assume that Pat is also male.

Pat Murphy, a Police Officer of Irish Ethnic Background, Is