In the 19th century, Russian peasants noticed that during cholera epidemics there were lots of doctors around; in an attempt to eliminate cholera, they killed all the doctors. This is an example of

a. mistaking correlation with causation.
b. the fallacy of opportunism.
c. excessive abstraction.
d. rationality.
e. marginal analysis.


a

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