Identify which of the following fallacies the following example illustrates. Choose the best answer from the list offered. My lawyer told me that a highly reputable study on divorce cases has shown that I should have a one in three chance of winning my alimony dispute against my husband. Well, I lost my cases against my first and my second husbands. That means the odds are with me. I can't lose
a. Overlooking a Common Cause
b. Causal Oversimplification
c. Only Game in Town
d. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
e. Jumping from Correlation to Cause
f. Slippery Slope
g. Gamblers Fallacy
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