In opening her new private preschool, Mrs Alvarez plans to only accept students who come from upper-middle income families, because she read that students who perform well come from higher socioeconomic families. Mrs Alvarez is making the ________ error of critical thinking.

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Mrs Alvarez is making the correlation versus causation error by assuming that because students from higher socioeconomic families perform well, the socioeconomic status is the cause of their performance, without considering other factors that might contribute to student success.

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