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people have a general tendency to stick with their current situation.

The only difference between the two groups was that the students conceded that they were influenced by the anchor, while the professionals denied that influence.

However, the videos were carefully designed to be uninformative; they provided no reason to suspect that the individuals would be either more or less helpful than a randomly chosen student. In the absence of useful new information, the Bayesian solution is to stay with the base rates.

Data are records of observations.

black undergraduates were more likely to apply for jobs portraying black company employees, especially if the employees were in supervisory positions.

Black and Hispanic job applicants are more likely to apply for jobs when black or Hispanic representatives are depicted in company recruitment materials.

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However, a key finding of anchoring research is that anchors that are obviously random can be just as effective as potentially informative anchors.