The tendency to ignore information about general principles in favor of very specific but vivid information is known as

A) Bonferroni inequalities.
B) false discovery rate.
C) Boole's inequality.
D) base rate neglect.

Base Rate Neglect

The tendency to ignore information about general principles in favor of very specific but vivid information.

Bonferroni Inequalities

Statistical safeguards used to reduce the chances of making incorrect inferences when multiple hypothesis tests are being performed simultaneously.

False Discovery Rate

A statistical method used to estimate the proportion of false positives among a set of identified positives, often applied in multiple hypothesis testing.