According to Tversky and Kahneman, the errors in logic that occurred in response to the "Linda the feminist bank teller" problem (where participants think it is more likely that Linda is a feminist bank teller than simply a bank teller) are due to the fact that they confused:

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The "Linda problem" illustrates the conjunction fallacy, where people judge the probability of two events (Linda being a feminist and a bank teller) as more likely than one event (Linda being a bank teller) due to the representativeness heuristic, which leads them to confuse representativeness with probability.

According to Tversky and Kahneman, the Errors in Logic That