Suppose that you are assigning eight college students to two committees.By chance,one committee has four students from the social sciences,and the other has four students from the humanities.If people protest that this arrangement does not seem to be random,they are following

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The protest that the arrangement is not random is an example of the representativeness heuristic, which is the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event based on how closely it resembles other events or prototypes that we know about. In this case, the protest is based on the expectation that a random assignment would result in committees that are more diverse in terms of majors or disciplines, rather than having one committee composed entirely of social science majors and the other composed entirely of humanities majors.

Suppose That You Are Assigning Eight College Students to Two