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The Failure of System Two
In an experiment, 89% of undergraduates in our sample produced rankings that violated logic. We found only one group that was relatively immune to the fallacy when presented with a short version of the Linda problem. Only 36% of them committed the error when the two critical options were compared directly. The word fallacy is used in general when people fail to apply a logical rule that is obviously relevant.