... and Joyce[ 19 ] describe representativeness as the tendency to judge the probability that item A comes from population B based on the degree to which A is judged to possess essential characteristics similar to B. Although using the representativeness heuristic has a certain intuitive appeal, its use can...

... to permit statistical testing of this hypothesis: H₀1: There will be no difference between the means of the subjective probability estimates derived from two groups of experimental participants, one group having information from a prior audit concerning a similar evaluation and the other...