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Jahmal cites his cousin Luana's many car accidents as evidence that women are worse drivers than men. He overlooks the fact that his wife and three daughters have had far fewer car accidents than he and his two sons. Jahmal's prejudicial conclusion about women's driving skills best illustrates the effects of:____________.

A) functional fixedness.
B) algorithms.
C) confirmation bias.
D) the framing effect.
E) the representativeness heuristic.

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User Kolyn
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Answer:

Confirmation Bias

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a sexist bias because it is unfair to assume while before many people believed that men were better than women, but now is not so

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