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"Statistically speaking, men who eat more bananas are more likely to be in committed relations. So start eating more bananas". Which of the following fallacies is committed in the above argument ?

AFalse cause ✓ Correct
BSlippery slope
CRed herring
DAppeal to ignorance
Correct answer: (A) False cause
Explanation

The argument commits the fallacy of false cause.

It observes a statistical correlation between eating bananas and being in committed relationships.

From this mere association it leaps to the claim that eating bananas produces the relationship.

Treating a correlation as if it were a causal link is the false-cause fallacy.

A shared correlation does not by itself establish that one factor causes the other.

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