Question

2. Alicia makes the statement that every time she eats chocolate, she gets acne. By ignoring the possibility that there may be another factor that causes Alicia to eat chocolate and which also causes her acne, Alicia is committing the:

a. fallacy that association is causation
b. mistake of rejecting a null hypothesis
c. fallacy of segmentation
d. fallacy of composition
e. mistake of ignoring secondary effects

Answer 1

a. fallacy that association is causation

Step-by-step explanation:

Alicia is making an association between chocolate and acne but, there is no proof on Alicia statement There should be a positive correlation between the chocolate eaten by Alicia and the acne to stablish a cause-effect between each variable else, we are doing a simplistic analysis.