The crime rate in Washington, D.C., fell steadily during a six-month period when followers of an Indian holy man, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, practiced meditation at a school he founded there

So, there's no question about it: it was the meditating that caused the crime rate to fall in Washington" commits the fallacy of A) hasty generalization B) weak analogy C) false cause D) appeal to ignorance E) appeal to unqualified authority


C

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