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Read these sentences.
Each time I wash my car it rains the next day. If I wash my car today, it will rain tomorrow.
Which type of logical fallacy appears in these sentences?
Cherry picking
Fallacy of the single cause
Reversing causal direction
Correlation proves causation
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Correlation proves causation.
This assumes that because washing the car and rain are regularly associated, washing causes the rain (a post hoc / "post hoc ergo propter hoc" error). Other explanations (coincidence or a common cause/confounder) are possible.
This assumes that because washing the car and rain are regularly associated, washing causes the rain (a post hoc / "post hoc ergo propter hoc" error). Other explanations (coincidence or a common cause/confounder) are possible.
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