A friend tells you that drama majors tend to be extremely disorganized.However,when you actually make a tally of 10 friends who are drama majors and 20 friends who are not,you find no relationship.Your friend's error was most likely to be an example of

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This is an example of an illusory correlation, where someone believes there is a relationship or correlation between two variables, but in reality there is none. In this case, the friend believed drama majors are extremely disorganized, but when actual data was collected, there was no relationship between being a drama major and being disorganized.

A Friend Tells You That Drama Majors Tend to Be