Question

Louisa and Ray are evaluating the amount of recess time that should be given in the next school year at a new combined school for children from School A and School B. Louisa has a report that says over the last year children had no recess time at School A. Ray has a report that children had 60 minutes of recess time each day. Due to anchoring, Louisa is likely to give a recommendation that is:

Answer 1

Answer:

lower than Ray's

Explanation:

The concept of anchoring refers to a cognitive bias in which the individual in question depends greatly on the first piece of information that they have seen when making a decision. Therefore base on this and the scenario described in the question it can be said that Louisa is likely to give a recommendation that is lower than Ray's, because the first information that she saw was that School A had no recess.