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Consider the following Causal Claim:

All of a sudden he's all Let's go to Beano's for a change. Right. Am I supposed to think it's just coincidence his old girlfriend started working there?
This is an example of:_______.
A. Common Thread reasoning.
B. Relevant Difference reasoning.

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Answer:

Relevant Difference reasoning

Step-by-step explanation:

Relevance Difference Reasoning is a term in psychology that describes a type of Casual Argument Form, in which an incident X as the only appropriate difference that has resulted in the effect Y.

In other words, it is when effect B occurs in a circumstance that it has not occurred in similar situations before in. There is a relevant difference A. Therefore A is the cause of effect B.

Hence, in this case, his old girlfriend working at Beano is the relevant difference. Therefore, it is the cause-effect of him, saying we should go to Beano, all of a sudden.

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