Thursday, April 29, 2010
the cause precedes the effect
One section of the book that caught my attention while I was reading through chapter 15 was “the cause precedes the effect” concept. Basically, it’s pretty self explanatory, but the cause comes before the effect. For example, if someone gets into a car accident and people come to rescue him and wonder what caused the accident, and realizes he’s holding onto a phone, they can’t be certain that the phone was what has caused the accident. They can accuse the phone and think all they want to think about it, but unless they check to see if the cause precedes the effect, nothing is for sure. They have to check to see if the cause (perhaps the phone) precedes the effect (car accident). If not, then it’s pretty clear that the phone was not the primary cause of the accident. In order to do that, they’d have to check his recent calls and/or text messages to see if the times recorded is during the time period in which his accident occurred.
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I like the way that you organized your information and the layout of your posting is really good the fact that you lay out the information right in the beginning in the post. As you stated this concept is self explanatory did make it understand the concept that much more. You have really great examples. The examples that you used also made it a lot easier to understand the concept at hand. I think that this example can be totally related to most of people these days with the cell phone laws. Thank you for helping me with the concept and have a good weekend.
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