A researcher surveyed all of the young people in a juvenile detention center and found that almost all of them had eaten white bread and drank Kool-Aid as young children. He concluded that these two items are causes of some of the teenagers’ current problems. This is an example of what kind of reasoning?
a. Multiple hypotheses
b. Probabilistic causes
c. Curvilinear relationship
d. Post hoc fallacy
Ans: d
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