Question

Gina went out one evening and got herself a shiny new tattoo of a bouquet of flowers on her lower back. the next day, gina's girlfriend, shanae, ended their relationship. mutual friends of theirs assumed that shanae ended the relationship because of the new tattoo. these friends have not read your textbook carefully because they have just fallen prey to the __________ fallacy.

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: post hoc Fallacy

post hoc Fallacy is caused by this type of thinking:
"Since event X happened after event Y, event Y must be the reason why event X happened"
It's called a fallacy because it ignored any possible external factors that might cause event X from happening.