Consider this argument offered by the assistant principal of a high school
"Fact is 99% of the time when a high school gets a bomb threat it is because some kid is not prepared to take an exam that day. Our school just received a bomb threat. So this means that one of our students is not prepared to take an exam today." That argument is an example of ________.
(a) the Gambler's Fallacy
(b) the fallacy of False Cause
(c) a valid argument. The conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true
(d) a warranted argument. The conclusion might be false even if the premises are true
(e) a demonstration of the statistical correlation between fake bomb threats and unprepared students
d
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