An interviewer is asking people on the street questions about the mayor of their town.He tells them that the new mayor has a PhD in sociology,has specialized in women's and gender studies,and has published several research papers in peer review journals.The interviewer presents them with two situations and asks which one of them is more probable.He asks them if it is more probable that the mayor is a women's rights activist,or a politician who is also a college professor.If the interviewees pick the first situation,which error in judgment are they committing?
A)conjunction fallacy
B)availability bias
C)sunk-cost fallacy
D)optimism bias

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The interviewees are committing the conjunction fallacy, which occurs when people believe that the probability of two events happening together is higher than the probability of either event happening alone. In this case, the interviewees are assuming that the mayor is both a women's rights activist and a college professor, which is less probable than assuming that the mayor is only one of those things.

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