Alicia makes the statement that every time she eats chocolate, it starts to rain. 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 rejecting a null hypothesis.

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Alicia is assuming that just because two events happen at the same time, one must be causing the other. This is a common fallacy known as "correlation does not imply causation."

Alicia Makes the Statement That Every Time She Eats Chocolate