When you ask people what caused more deaths - accidents and homicides or strokes and diabetes - people will guess accidents and homicides,even though it is strokes and diabetes (and it's not even really close) .This is most likely due to
A) the availability heuristic.
B) confirmatory bias.
C) the representativeness heuristic.
D) an atmosphere effect.
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