A community reports a rise in vandalism during the same summer months that ice cream sales are highest. A resident concludes that eating ice cream causes people to commit vandalism. What is the primary flaw in this reasoning?
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A
The resident is using a circular argument.
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B
The resident is confusing correlation with causation.
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C
The resident is appealing to emotion instead of logic.
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D
The resident is making a hasty generalization from a small sample size.