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When people are asked which is more common, death by homicide or death by stroke, they often choose homicide because they hear more about murders than they do about strokes. In this instance, people are led astray in their judgments by:____________

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The Availability Heuristic

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Since there is more information avaliable about murders than strokes people tend to know more about murders causing them to think most thinks are in fact murders.

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