Alicia makes the statement that every time she eats chocolate,she gets acne.By ignoring the possibility that there may be another factor that causes Alicia to eat chocolate and which also causes her acne,Alicia is committing the:
A)fallacy of composition.
B)fallacy that association is causation.
C)fallacy of segmentation.
D)mistake of ignoring secondary effects.
E)mistake of looking beyond the obvious.

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Alicia is assuming that just because she eats chocolate and gets acne, that chocolate is the cause of her acne. This is the fallacy that association is causation. She is not considering other factors that could be contributing to her acne.

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