A family has three children, all of whom are boys. Everyone predicts that their next child will be a girl. Which heuristic does this demonstrate?

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The representativeness heuristic is at play here because people are assuming that having a girl next would make the family's gender distribution more representative or typical of the broader population, despite each child's gender being an independent event.

A Family Has Three Children, All of Whom Are Boys