The unemployment rate was falling during all of the years that I was a student, but as soon as I graduated, the unemployment rate started to rise. Therefore, the job market was waiting until I started looking for employment to start to go bad. This statement is an example of

A. fallacy of inductive reasoning.
B. ceteris paribus fallacy.
C. fallacy of logic.
D. post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy.


Answer: D

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