When Jill was asked,she chose cars over stomach cancer as the cause of more U.S.deaths per year.When asked why she chose the wrong answer,she said,"I hear about fatal car accidents every day.I never hear about stomach cancer." Jill's type of judgment error was:
A)availability.
B)representativeness.
C)anchoring and adjustment.
D)confirmation.
E)overconfidence.

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Jill's judgment error is that she is basing her decision on the ease with which examples come to mind or the ease with which they are available to her. She consistently hears about car accidents and therefore believes they are a more common cause of death than they actually are. This is an example of the availability heuristic.

When Jill Was Asked,she Chose Cars Over Stomach Cancer as the Cause