The Cause and Effect website was very useful because it provided detailed examples on casual arguments. To strengthen a casual argument I learned that there are three main factors that I need to follow. I have to figure out 1) how acceptable or demonstrable the implied comparison is, 2) how likely the case for causation seems to be, and 3) how credible the “only significant difference” or “only significant commonality” claim is. These three factors helped me in the practice exercises because they used examples where I would have to decide how significant each answer was. The exercises focused a lot on deciding what answer had the most significant “commonality” or the most significant “difference”. I also learned that there are two main rules to remember when you are dealing with causations. The cause must always precede the event in time and even a strong correlation is insufficient to prove causation. The Cause and Effect website was a very interesting read and I learned a lot of new valuable information from the exercises as well.
You are very right, the website was very detailed and the examples were well thought out. I definitely think that it was a little dry though. Over all I didn’t find the website to be very interesting. Respectively, I guess the point wasn’t to be exciting. So I definitely agree with you in that it did offer good information for cause and effects and where they stand in inductive reasoning. You also brought up a good point about how the cause must precede the effect and even so must be able to be proved the effect was derived from the cause. That was a good point featured on the site.
ReplyDeleteGood job on explaining the cause and effect website. I like how in your blog post you included the three main factors needed in order to strengthen a casual argument. I did not catch that in the website so it was helpful to my learning. It also could have been helpful if you explained point three a little bit more. I would have liked to understand “only significant difference” and “only significant commonality” a little more. But other than that, great job also on explaining the two main rules for causations. Great job and your blog helped me understand the concept more in depth.
ReplyDeleteHey Lyss! So with this post I really like how you started off with giving us the three main factors you can use to strength a casual argument. Then I also like how you related it to then exercises. I didn’t make the connection myself that the third factor was to relevant in the exercises given. But now after reading your post and can totally see how they mixed it into the exercises. Now I understand why most of the question in the exercise asked for the most significant "commonality" or the most significant "difference". Good job in making that connection Lyss! I also liked how you described the two main rules to remember when you are dealing with causations. Overall I thought this was a good post! Great job!
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