Question

In the early 19th century, the Russian government sent doctors to southern Russian villages to provide assistance during a cholera epidemic. The villagers noticed that wherever doctors appeared, people died. Therefore, many doctors were chased away from villages, and some were even killed. This reaction to the correlation between doctors and deaths is most likely a problem of:

Answer 1

This is called reverse causality. This is basically a presumption loop, or when people think the effect of something that isn't actually happening. This is an example as when doctors were around people died, so people would assume it was the doctors fault, even though they were trying to help.