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Rudy is 6 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 210 pounds, and is very muscular. if you think that rudy is more likely to be a basketball player than a computer programmer, you are a victim of:

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The answer is representativeness heuristic. This is used when making decisions about the likelihood of an occasion under doubt. It is unique of a group of heuristics (simple rules leading decision or decision-making) suggested by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the 1970s.
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