Subjective evaluation of probabilities can exhibit

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The prompt presents the question text: 'Subjective evaluation of probabilities can exhibit' but provides no answer options to analyze. Without a list of possible choices, we cannot perform the standard option-by-option evaluation that this task requires.

In a typical question of this form, one might expect options such as:
- Overconfidence and calibration errors, where people underestimate or overestimate probabilities.
- Availability heuristic, where easily recalled events are judged as more likely.
- Base-rate neglect, where prior probabilities are ignored in updating estimates.
- Conjunction fallacy or misinterpretation of probabilistic independence.

If options like these were present, we would assess each as follows:
- For an option stating that subjective probability judgments are often miscalibrated, we would support it with evidence that humans tend to over- or under-weight likelihoods relative to normative probabilities.
- For an option invoking the availability heuristic, we would explain how memory accessibility biases probability estimates toward recent or vivid events.
- For an option about base-rate neglect, we would discuss how people ignore base rates when updating probabilities in light of new information.
- For an option about the conjunction fallacy, we would describe why people sometimes assign higher probability to a specific event than to a more general one, contrary to probability theory.

Because no answer options are provided, there is no basis to determine which statement(s) would be true or false in this specific item, nor to justify an 'all of the above' answer. In a complete item, we would compare each option against established concepts in probability judgment and provide reasoning for why it is correct or incorrect.

If you can supply the missing answer options, I can deliver a complete, option-by-option analysis with detailed explanations for why each choice is correct or incorrect.

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