If asked, "Which is more probable? A.Janice wears glasses and is a librarian.B.Janice is a librarian." Most people would answer A, although A is less likely to be true than B.According to Tversky and Kahneman, such faulty conclusions are based on
A) the framing effect.
B) convergent thinking.
C) divergent thinking.
D) the representativeness heuristic.

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The faulty conclusion mentioned in the question is an example of the representativeness heuristic, which is a mental shortcut where people judge the likelihood of an event based on how well it fits into their pre-existing mental prototype or stereotype. In this case, people may have a mental prototype of a typical librarian that includes wearing glasses, leading them to believe that the combination of being a librarian and wearing glasses is more probable than just being a librarian alone.

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