Question

Which heuristic would you likely use if you were asked, "are there more words in the English language that start with the letter "k" or that have "k" as the third letter in the word?"

Answer 1

Answer:

- Availability Heuristic.

Explanation:

The availability heuristic is described as the general approach or tendency to make evaluations or judgments based on the instant examples that a person can recall at the moment and giving significance to the recalled(available) information only and ignoring the other(unrecalled) substitute solutions which however leads to make the judgment biased and unreliable.

In the given situation, 'availability heuristic' could be employed as in order to make the judgment about that 'are there enough words in English Language starting with letter 'k' or have 'K' as its third letter' would be based entirely on the words or vocabulary that one could recall or come to his mind immediately and ignore the other solutions as being insignificant because they could not be recalled at the moment. Therefore, 'availability heuristic' is the answer.