A person ignores a common cause when he or she blames a result on what may appear to be the true cause, but fails to realize that both results were caused by something else entirely.
So a person may think they feel nauseous because they have a headache, when the headache is just another symptom of a common cause: the flu.
This fallacy is closely related to a number of others that wrongly identify a cause.
These include:
Correlation does not imply causation
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
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