Simon is meek,tidy,quiet,and overly concerned with order and detail.When given the choice of guessing if Simon works at the library or at the hospital,most people guess the library,even though the hospital employs more people.The guess that Simon works at the library is due to:
A)availability bias.
B)base-rate decision making.
C)the representative heuristic.
D)the conjunction fallacy.

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The representative heuristic is the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event by how closely it resembles a prototype or stereotype. In this case, Simon's meek, tidy, quiet, and overly concerned with order and detail characteristics are more consistent with the prototype of a librarian than that of a hospital employee, which leads people to assume that he works at the library even though the hospital employs more people.

Simon Is Meek,tidy,quiet,and Overly Concerned with Order and Detail