Select the fallacy or bad argument technique which occurs in the following argument: Alice never drank until she left home and went to university, but these days she seems to be a raging alcoholic. There's no doubt about it - university made her into a drunk!
A) Post hoc ergo propter hoc
B) Fallacy of denying the antecedent
C) Common practice
D) Straw man

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This argument commits the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, which assumes that just because two events (Alice going to university and Alice becoming an alcoholic) happen to follow each other, one must have caused the other. There could be many other factors that contributed to Alice's alcoholism, such as stress from university or personal issues unrelated to her education.

Select the Fallacy or Bad Argument Technique Which Occurs in the Following