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== Examples ==<!-- Two examples are plenty, and we will only accept material that is sourced from a published work (preferably a textbook) on logic. --> * A tenant moves into an apartment and the building's furnace develops a fault. The manager blames the tenant's arrival for the malfunction. One event merely followed the other, in the absence of causality.<ref>{{cite book |title= Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments|last= Damer|first= T Edward|author-link= T. Edward Damer|edition= 3rd|year= 1995|publisher= Wadsworth Publishing|location= [[Belmont, California|Belmont, CA]]|isbn= 978-0-534-21750-1|oclc= 30319422|page= 131}}</ref> * Brazilian footballer [[Pelé]] blamed a dip in his playing performance on having given his playing shirt to a fan. His play recovered after a friend, sent to retrieve the shirt from the fan, returned a shirt claimed to be the original (though it was actually just the shirt Pelé had worn during his previous poor performance, as the original could not be tracked down).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/4805924/Top-10-Football-superstitions-to-rival-Arsenals-Kolo-Toure.html|title=Top 10: Football superstitions to rival Arsenal's Kolo Toure|last=Macaskill|first=Sandy|date=2009-02-25|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826041515/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/4805924/Top-10-Football-superstitions-to-rival-Arsenals-Kolo-Toure.html|archive-date=2010-08-26|url-status=live}}</ref> * Reporting of coincidental [[vaccine adverse event]]s, where people have a health complaint after being vaccinated and assume it was caused by the vaccination.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Lmfug12yFkC&pg=PA119|title=Thinking and Reasoning: An Introduction to the Psychology of Reason, Judgment and Decision Making|last=Manktelow|first=K. I.|year=2012|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9781841697413|page=119}}</ref>
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