A government passes a law increasing taxes on banks. Two days later, there are several bank robberies. A politician who opposed the taxes claims that the new law is causing bank robberies. Which of the following explains the flaw in his argument?
The main flaw in this persons argument is one having to do with "causation vs. correlation"--the fact that the banks were robbed had nothing to do with the recent taxes, meaning that the two events were correlated, but not dependent.
