In the 1984 comedy movie All of Me, a character from another country, who has no experience with either telephones or flush toilets, flushes a toilet and then a phone rings. He flushes again and the phone rings again. After this occurs several times, the character concludes that pulling the toilet's flush handle causes the ringing. This is an example of which type of cognitive bias?

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In the 1984 comedy movie <i>All of Me,</i> a character from another country, who has no experience with either telephones or flush toilets, flushes a toilet and then a phone rings. He flushes again and the phone rings again. After this occurs several times, the character concludes that pulling the toilet's flush handle causes the ringing. This is an example of which type of cognitive bias?






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