Question

Sasha believes that she is a nice person. To confirm this, she asks all her friends whether she is a nice person and they all agree that she is. Sasha concludes that she is a nice person and says she has evidence of it. However, she does not ask any of her enemies whether they think she is a nice person. Sasha would likely draw a different conclusion if she did which of the following?
a. Cherry-picking of evidence
b. Availability heuristic
c. Fourth cell reasoning
d. Overconfidence
e. All of the above are examples of "thinking what we want"

Answer 1

Answer:

a. Cherry-picking of evidence

Explanation:

Cherry-picking: The term "cherry-picking" is also referred to as "fallacy of incomplete evidence" or "suppressing evidence" is described as the specific act of pointing or denoting to individual data or cases that seem to withstand or confirm a specific position while avoiding an important part of similar and related data or cases that tends to contradict that particular position.

Example: Resumes.

In the question above, the given statement represents "cherry-picking of evidence" as the correct answer.