What error in reasoning is exemplified by the following passage?
Home sales were 30 percent higher in the summer o2011, when temperatures averaged 95 degrees, than they were in the summer o2010, when the average temperature was only 83 degrees. Clearly, then, hot temperatures make people more inclined to buy a house.
A) invalid analogy
B) circular thinking
C) false cause
D) hasty generalization
E) faulty deduction

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The error in reasoning is attributing the increase in home sales to the rise in temperature without considering other factors that could have influenced the sales, which is a classic example of a false cause fallacy.

What Error in Reasoning Is Exemplified by the Following Passage