Identify the flaw in the argument: “During the summer of 2011, the number of accidents involving people hitting themselves or others with a hammer rose dramatically. That same summer, the movie Thor was released. So, Thor must have caused people to use hammers dangerously.”
Answer
This is a causation flaw. While an increase in hammer injuries correlating with the release of a movie about a superhero with a giant hammer is certainly a suspicious coincidence, we cannot say definitively that Thor caused the increase in injuries. Maybe that summer also involved a lot of DIY home improvement projects. The point is, causal conclusions are always sketchy on the LSAT so anytime you jump from correlation to causation, that is a huge fallacy red flag.