People tend to estimate the likelihood of an event’s occurrence according to its salience; that is, according to how strongly and how often it comes to their attention.
By placement and headlines, newspapers emphasize stories about local crime over stories about crime elsewhere and about many other major events.
It can be concluded on the basis of the statements above that, if they are true, which of the following is most probably also true?

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Correct Answer is :  Readers of local news in newspapers tend to overestimate the amount of crime in their own localities relative to the amount of crime in other places.

GMAT Verbal Reasoning Practice Test 4