Evaluate the following argument in accordance with the criteria discussed in the text."Four years ago, nonfat milk sold for 95 cents per half gallon. Today I paid $1.45 per half gallon at one of our low-priced supermarkets. That's a 52 percent increase in just four years for an average of 13 percent per year, while the official government inflation rate is less than 3 percent. Why is this? It's not a coincidence that four years ago we got our first Republican governor in this state in a long time."-From a newspaper call-in column
What will be an ideal response?
Post hoc reasoning; it probably is a coincidence.
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