In the early 19th century, the Russian government sent doctors to southern Russian villages to provide assistance during a cholera epidemic. The villagers noticed that wherever doctors appeared, people died. Therefore, many doctors were chased away from villages, and some were even killed. This reaction to the correlation between doctors and deaths is most likely a problem of

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The villagers mistakenly believed that the presence of doctors caused deaths, rather than understanding that doctors were present because of the existing cholera epidemic causing deaths. This is an example of reverse causality, where the cause and effect are misunderstood.

In the Early 19th Century, the Russian Government Sent Doctors