False Cause
The questionable cause—also known as causal fallacy, false cause, or non causa pro causa ("non-cause for cause" in Latin)—is a category of informal fallacies in which the cause or causes is/are incorrectly identified. In other words, it is a fallacy of reaching a conclusion that one thing caused another, simply because they are regularly associated.
Questionable cause can be logically reduced to: "A is regularly associated with B; therefore, A causes B."
For example: "Every time I score an A on the test its a sunny day. Therefore the sunny day causes me to score well on the test." Here is the example the two events may coincide or correlate, but have no causal connection.
Fallacies of questionable cause include:
Circular cause and consequence
Correlation implies causation (cum hoc, ergo propter hoc)
Third-cause fallacy
Wrong direction
Fallacy of the single cause
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Observational interpretation fallacy
Regression fallacy
Texas sharpshooter fallacy
Jumping to conclusions
Association fallacy
Magical thinking
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