Question

Nutz and Boltz, Inc. employs 100 people; 80 are lawyers and 20 are engineers. Albert, a lawyer at the company, is quiet, likes puzzles, and carries a calculator. Most people, when asked whether Albert is a lawyer or an engineer, will guess that he is an engineer. These people are using ________ to make this faulty guess. A correct guess would have been made if they had used ________.

A. the representativeness heuristic; the availability heuristic.
B. the representativeness heuristic; base rate information
C. base rate information; the representativeness heuristic
D. base rate information; anchoring and adjustment

Answer 1

B

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

B. the representativeness heuristic; base rate information

Step-by-step explanation:

When people will be asked whether Albert is an engineer or lawyer, people will say that he is an engineer, because they are judging due to his appearance as he has a calculator on his hand.

People present there are using "the representativeness heuristic" to guess Albert. Because in the representativeness heuristic, it also guess due to appearance.

The people can make correct guess if they use base rate information because in "base rate information" it guesses on the probability of the information which is absent.