It has been observed that people surveyed shortly after major air crashes estimate higher probabilities that a given flight will crash than people surveyed during intervals without any.The error in reasoning observed in this experiment results from:
A)availability heuristics.
B)representative heuristics.
C)population heuristics.
D)selection bias.

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The error in reasoning observed in the experiment is availability heuristic. Availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision. In this case, the immediate example is the major air crashes and the recent media coverage of such events which made participants believe that the probability of an air crash is higher than when there are no major air crashes being publicized.

It Has Been Observed That People Surveyed Shortly After Major