Meg hired a great candidate from UCLA who has a big career ahead, and every year since Meg insists on going on a recruiting visit to that campus.Meg is convinced that hiring from UCLA in the future will produce the same level of success.This is an example of a(n)
A)heuristic bias.
B)professional effect.
C)anchoring effect.
D)availability bias.
E)representativeness bias.

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Representativeness bias is the tendency to generalize from a small sample or a single event.The bias here is that just because something happens once, that doesn't mean it is representative, or that it will happen again or will happen to you.

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