Leslie visits her garden to discover that her tomatoes and beans have been eaten by an animal.Certain it's a deer,she constructs a fence around the garden.A week later,the vegetables have been eaten again,so she installs an even taller fence.Leslie has not considered that an animal may be burrowing into her garden,likely because ____.
A) she has ascribed too much utility to her initial solution
B) an availability heuristic has blocked her from considering another hypothesis
C) she did not apply logic before problem-solving
D) her original proposition was based on a false premise

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The availability heuristic refers to the phenomenon where people make judgments or decisions based on easily accessible information or examples. In this case, Leslie may have assumed that a deer was responsible for the damage because it was the most easily accessible or common animal in her area that could cause such damage. Therefore, she may have overlooked the possibility of another animal or a different cause for the damage.

Leslie Visits Her Garden to Discover That Her Tomatoes and Beans