A friend tells you that drama majors tend to be extremely disorganized. However, when you actually make a tally of 10 friends who are drama majors and 20 friends who are not, you find no relationship. Your friend's error was most likely to be an example of

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Your friend's error is an example of an illusory correlation, which occurs when someone perceives a relationship between two variables even when no such relationship exists. In this case, the belief that drama majors are disorganized, despite evidence to the contrary, is an illusory correlation.

A Friend Tells You That Drama Majors Tend to Be