When subjects are told the number of engineers in a sample of 100 people and are given a personality description of an individual from that sample, they estimate the probability that the selected individual is an engineer by using

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People often rely on representativeness heuristics, using personality descriptions to make judgments about probabilities, rather than considering base rates like the number of engineers in the sample.

When Subjects Are Told the Number of Engineers in a Sample