In the early 19th century,the Russian government sent doctors to southern Russian villages to provide assistance during a cholera epidemic.The villagers noticed that wherever doctors appeared,people died.Therefore,many doctors were chased away from villages,and some were even killed.This reaction to the correlation between doctors and deaths is most likely a problem of
A)omitted variables.
B)reverse causality.
C)government propaganda.
D)medical incompetence.

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This is an example of reverse causality, where the perceived correlation between doctors and deaths led to the mistaken belief that doctors were the cause of the epidemic rather than providing assistance for it.

In the Early 19th Century,the Russian Government Sent Doctors to Southern