You're the Leader of the Interstellar Dark Beer Drinking Doomsday

Multiple Choice

You're the leader of the Interstellar Dark Beer Drinking Doomsday cult. You predict that the world will end when consumption of dark beer declines by 5% or more in a year. Consumption declines 7%, but the world does not end. When this fact is pointed out to you, your response is, "Members of the IDBDD drank mass quantities of dark beer, so they saved the world from extinction, proving the validity of my teachings." This is an example of

A) confirmation bias.
B) false dichotomy.
C) rationalization of disconfirmation.
D) groupthink.