"I forgot to wear my lucky jersey, and my favorite team lost their playoff game. It's my fault they're not going to the Super Bowl." Identify the fallacy that applies to this example.
A) The post hoc fallacy
B) None of the answers are correct
C) The oversimplified cause fallacy
D) The mere correlation fallacy
E) The fallacy of appeal to ignorance

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The post hoc fallacy is present here because it assumes that because one event followed another, the first event caused the second. In this case, forgetting to wear a lucky jersey is incorrectly assumed to cause the team's loss.

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