Suppose a social activist collecting information on the level of air pollutants in sparsely populated regions concludes that pollution levels are positively related to population.Since her sample set is restricted only to sparsely populated regions her outcome would be erroneous due to:
A)recognition heuristic.
B)availability heuristic.
C)representative heuristic.
D)selection bias.

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The outcome would be erroneous due to selection bias, which occurs when certain individuals or groups are more likely to be included in a sample than others, leading to a distorted or unrepresentative sample. In this case, the social activist has only collected data from sparsely populated regions, which may not accurately reflect the true relationship between pollution levels and population density in all regions.

Suppose a Social Activist Collecting Information on the Level of Air