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When forming judgments about others, people often rely on the representativeness heuristic. Unfortunately, this can lead people to

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Answer: Ignore base-rate information

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Ignore base-rate information is described as a Cognitive error where very little weight of information is placed on the base or original base of possibility. Which implies that people tend to ignore the base rate in favor of the individuating information, rather than correctly integrating the two.

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