You personally prefer operating system A to operating system B, but a majority of people in your office use B, and you are eventually compelled to switch in order to interoperate with them. Within two years, nearly everyone uses operating system B. Which of the following mechanisms of herd behavior does this best illustrate?

a. Information concealment

b. Local externalities

c. Exit cascade

d. Information cascade

e. Information feedback

Which of the following contexts isnotlikely to involve a causal misattribution?

Modern weather prediction

a. Roulette

b. Dieting for health

c. Dowsing

d. Deciding whether to praise success or punish failure