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John is a registered Democrat. When discussing politics with others, he assumes others share similar views to him on abortion rights, guns, immigration, and the climate. This is an example of the: Availability heuristic Representativeness heuristic False consensus bias Affect heuristic 

          John is a registered Democrat. When discussing politics with others, he assumes others share similar views to him on abortion rights, guns, immigration, and the climate. This is an example of the:
Availability heuristic 
Representativeness heuristic 
False consensus bias
Affect heuristic
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00:01 The question that is given over here, it says that against his financial advisor's advice, frank has decided to invest his money in some risky stocks because he once made quite a bit of money in the stock market.
00:26 His decision illustrates what? a group of answer choices were given.
00:32 The right answer for this question is option a.
00:38 The representativeness heristic representativeness herristic refers to the act of making judgment about the certain probability under uncertain situations it is often being done when investors want to accumulate wealth in a fastest way possible even though the loss that is the loss of risk of losing all their wealth become larger against his financial advice frank has decided to invest his money in some risky stores because he has made a quite bit of money in stock market...
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