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Mia has lived in New York City all her life. She has noticed that people from upper Manhattan walk really fast, but people from lower Manhattan tend to walk slowly. Mia's observations are likely influenced from a judgment error based on her using______________.

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The correct answer is an illusory correlation

Explanation: The Illusion Correlation chronicles our mental tendency, as humans, to erroneously seek and identify cause and effect relationships between totally independent elements.

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