This pattern of thinking, which has been dubbed the conjunction fallacy, has been seen frequently not

just in
later, related trials, but even within groups with backgrounds in statistical and probabilistic theory, both at
intermediate and sophisticated level. This is an impressive finding (Tversky and Kahneman, 1982, pp. 92–93).
In addition to this, difficulties relating to the evaluation of prior probabilities have been discovered that contain
representativeness-based biases. The well-known "attorneys and engineers" challenge involved presenting two
sets of participants with the personality sketches of various persons who were said to have been randomly
selected from a larger group of one hundred lawyers and engineers (Tversky and Kahneman, 1974, p. 1124–
1125). Participants in one condition were informed that the group consisted of 70 attorneys and 30 engineers,
whereas participants in the other condition were told that the makeup was switched around. After that, we asked
both groups to determine the likelihood that a certain personality profile belonged to an engineer rather than a
lawyer.