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

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This statement is an example of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy, which assumes that because one event followed another, the first event caused the second. In this case, the speaker mistakenly believes their graduation caused the job market to worsen.

The Unemployment Rate Was Falling During All of the Years