A patient begins taking a new heart medication.On the day of the first dose, the patient comes in contact with a sick coworker.The patient calls his doctor the next day to complain of flu-like symptoms as a side effect of the new medication.This is an example of
A)taking mental shortcuts.
B)the hindsight bias.
C)seeing relationships that do not exist.
D)the confirmation bias.

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The patient is incorrectly associating the flu-like symptoms with the new medication, rather than considering other factors (like the sick coworker), which is an example of perceiving a relationship between two variables (the medication and the symptoms) when no such relationship exists.

A Patient Begins Taking a New Heart Medication