What Error in Reasoning Is Exemplified by the Following Passage

question 128

Multiple Choice

What error in reasoning is exemplified by the following passage?
Home sales were 30 percent higher in the summer o2011, when temperatures averaged 95 degrees, than they were in the summer o2010, when the average temperature was only 83 degrees. Clearly, then, hot temperatures make people more inclined to buy a house.

• A) invalid analogy
• B) circular thinking
• C) false cause
• D) hasty generalization
• E) faulty deduction

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