"Every time I've gone to the concession stand for a beer, our basketball team has gone on a scoring streak. There are two minutes to go, and the team is trailing by six. I guess it's about time for a beer." Identify the fallacy that applies to this example.
A) The slippery-slope fallacy
B) The questionable cause fallacy
C) None of the answers are correct
D) The fallacy of false alternatives
E) The fallacy of appeal to ignorance

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The statement exemplifies the questionable cause fallacy, also known as post hoc ergo propter hoc, by incorrectly assuming that buying a beer causes the basketball team to go on a scoring streak, without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.

"Every Time I've Gone to the Concession Stand for a Beer