Question

You are taking a university course with a combined graduate and undergraduate enrollment. You know that there are many more undergraduate than graduate students enrolled in this course. There is a woman who looks to be about thirty sitting next to you. If you use only the base rate to guess her student status, you would guess that she is a(n) __________ student because __________.

Answer 1

She is an undergraduate because more undergraduates are enrolled

Explanation:

From the question, we understand that:

Undergraduate > Graduate

This represents the base rate

So, when taking a guess using the base rate, your guess will be that: the woman is an undergraduate.

The reason for this is that you know that there are more undergraduates than graduates enrolled in the course.