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This trickery was supposed to test the idea of anchoring from psychology (a type of cognitive bias). Given that the idea of anchoring is to test if an initial piece of information impacts your decision, which of the choices below make sense for the hypotheses for this particular test? Let group 1 be those who saw 80 as their anchor and group 2 be those who saw 30 as their anchor.

  • Group 1: When he was assassinated, was Abraham Lincoln younger than or older than 80 years old?
  • Group 2: When he was assassinated, was Abraham Lincoln younger than or older than 30 years old?

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