Alicia makes the statement that everytime she eats chocolate, it gives her acne. By ignoring the possibility that there may be another factor that causes Alicia to eat chocolate and which also causes her acne, Alicia is commiting the

a. fallacy of composition
b. fallacy that association is causation
c. fallacy of segmentation
d. mistake of ignoring secondary effects
e. mistake of looking beyond the obvious

B

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