People tend to ignore the base rate of some occurrence in th…

People tend to ignore the base rate of some occurrence in the population in making their judgments. For example, they assume anyone over 6’6” must have played a lot of basketball, even thought the majority of individuals have not played a lot of basketball. This is a prime example of:  

Listen! You think I’m crazy about the warehouse? You think I…

Listen! You think I’m crazy about the warehouse? You think I’m in love with the Continental Shoemakers? You think I want to spend fifty-five years down there in that–celotex interior! with–florescent–tubes! Look! I’d rather somebody picked up the crowbar and battered out my brains–than go back mornings! I go!