When asked people often list war and terrorism as the leading causes of death worldwide. This turns out to be incorrect and most deaths around the world are caused by respiratory illnesses. The fact that people make this mistake can be attributed to:
A) Availability bias.
B) Conjunction Fallacy.
C) Mistaking correlation for causation.
D) Failure to understand the difference between conjunctive and disjunctive events.

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Availability bias explains this mistake because people tend to overestimate the frequency of dramatic or widely reported events, like war and terrorism, due to their prominence in media coverage. This makes these events more "available" in memory, even though they are not the leading causes of death.

When Asked People Often List War and Terrorism as the Leading