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False Cause

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

State

Concluding causation from sequence or correlation — post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Show

"We changed logo; sales rose. The logo did it." So did the season, the promotion, and the economy.

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Near-miss: temporal order is genuinely necessary for causation — it's just nowhere near sufficient. Video 342's four rivals are the checklist.