When people use the representative heuristic to judge the probability of an event,they tend to ignore information about the base-rate occurrence of the event.

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The representative heuristic is the tendency to judge probabilities based on how similar an event is to a typical example or prototype. This can lead people to ignore information about the base-rate occurrence of the event, such as how frequently it occurs in the population.

When People Use the Representative Heuristic to Judge the Probability