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A risk analyst notes that staff consistently insist a very rare type of security compromise is far more likely than the data suggests, leading to excessive spending on countermeasures. Which behavioural tendency described in the article best explains this?

A People systematically underestimate low probabilities and overestimate high probabilities
B People systematically overestimate low probabilities and underestimate high probabilities
C People always use the utility value rather than the financial value of a loss
D People are unable to assign any probability at all in the absence of data

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