Seventy percent of the students in a classroom are women and 30 percent are men.One student is described as ambitious,athletic,and assertive.Why would most people think this description refers to a male student?
A)They are using the availability heuristic.
B)They are using the representativeness heuristic.
C)They are using a means-end analysis.
D)They are demonstrating functional fixedness

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People are using the representativeness heuristic, which is the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event based on the extent to which it ̳represents‘ the typical case. In this case, people assume that men are more likely to exhibit these traits than women, based on cultural stereotypes and gender roles.

Seventy Percent of the Students in a Classroom Are Women