In one experiment, the previously mentioned research team of Amos Tversky and 2002 Economics Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman asked subjects about the percentage of member nations in the United Nations that were African. One group of subjects was asked whether it was more than 10%, and a second group was asked whether it was more than 65%. Both groups were told that the percentage in the “Is it more than . . . ?” question was randomly generated. (In fact, it was not.)
