Identify which of the following fallacies the following example illustrates. Choose the best answer from the list offered. Now I realize that you were in surgery when I gave the examination. But I cannot let you take a make-up exam. If I do that, then people who were absent due to car accidents or illnesses in the family or just plain "had the flu" would demand make-up exams, too. Then, pretty
soon anyone who was scared of taking one of my tests or had something better to do that day would be asking for make-up exams.
a. Overlooking a Common Cause
b. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
c. Gambler's Fallacy
d. Slippery Slope
e. Only Game in Town
f. Jumping from Correlation to Cause
g. Causal Oversimplification
d
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