The economy was expanding during all of the years that I was a student, but as soon as I graduated, the economy contracted. Therefore, the labor market was waiting until I started looking for a job to contract. This statement is an example of
A) ceteris paribus fallacy.
B) post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy.
C) fallacy of composition.
D) fallacy of inductive reasoning.

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This statement is an example of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy, which claims that because one event happened after another, the first event must have caused the second event. In this case, the author assumes that because the economy contracted after they graduated, it must have been waiting for them to start looking for a job to do so, which is not necessarily true.

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