Base-rate fallacy is people’s tendency to ignore base-rate or statistically significant information, such as sample size or the relative frequency of an event. Instead, they focus on less relevant information.
For example, under the representativeness heuristic people favor similarity over base-rate information, leading them to wrong conclusions.The representativeness heuristic is thus a form of the base-rate fallacy.
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