Jamie and Lynn were sure that they had answered most of the multiple-choice questions correctly because "the questions required only common sense." However,they each scored less than 60% on the exam. This best illustrates
A) illusory correlation.
B) random assignment.
C) hindsight bias.
D) overconfidence.
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