Assume that Congress is considering revising its approach to welfare and to this end is hearing a range of testimony. A member of Congress who uses the availability heuristic would be most likely to
A) want to experiment with numerous possible approaches to see which of these seems to work best.
B) want to cling to approaches to welfare that seem to have had some success in the past.
C) refuse to be budged from his or her beliefs despite persuasive testimony to the contrary.
D) base his or her ideas on the most vivid, memorable testimony given, even though many of the statistics presented run counter to this testimony.
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