Seventy percent of the students in a classroom are women and 30 percent are men. One student is described as ambitious, athletic, and assertive. Why are most people likely to think this description refers to a male student?
A) The anchoring effect can lead to gender bias.
B) They are using the representativeness heuristic.
C) People seek only confirming information.
D) People tend to make relative comparisons.

A) The anchoring effect can lead to gender bias.

Explanation:

this is a human tendency where people rely on a trait  of what things used to be in the past. In most cases people in the society think that women cannot be assertive,ambitious or become leaders because they are only for the household .the trait is bound to the society even other women find it very hard to stand up for themselves.they think that male student are the only ones who are ambitious and athletic because of the masculine part.  

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