Raquel is interested in determining whether astrological signs are predictive of personality. To investigate this, she examines her own behaviors, find that they match the predictions in her astrology book, and concludes that everyone's sign does indeed predict how they will behave. Believing that everyone thinks and behaves like her is an error that stems from Raquel's use of the:
A) "what you see is what there is" phenomenon.
B) pleasure paradox.
C) better-than-average effect.
D) hindsight bias.

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Raquel's conclusion is based on her own experience and assumes it applies universally, which is an example of the "what you see is what there is" phenomenon, where one assumes their limited perspective is representative of the whole.

Raquel Is Interested in Determining Whether Astrological Signs Are Predictive