Suppose that you are assigning eight college students to two committees. By chance, one committee has four students from the social sciences, and the other has four students from the humanities. If people protest that this arrangement does not seem to be random, they are following

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The representativeness heuristic is at play here because people expect outcomes of random processes to look random as well, and a perfect split between social sciences and humanities students doesn't match that expectation, even though it is a possible random outcome.

Suppose That You Are Assigning Eight College Students to Two