While playing poker with his friends, Matthew scratches his right leg before winning a very big hand
He decides that scratching his right leg will be his "lucky gesture," and for a long time scratches his right leg with every hand that is dealt. This silly superstition violates which rules of critical thinking?
A) Correlation versus causation
B) Falsifiability
C) Extraordinary claims
D) Occam's Razor
Answer: A
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