Saturday, November 20, 2010

Interesting Concept from Chap15

Chapter fifteen was about cause and effect.  Cause and effect an be understood in the form of "B happened because A happened." A is the cause and B is the effect. We make a lot of cause and effect in our day lives. Like "There was traffic so I was late."

A concept mentioned in chapter fifteen was reversing cause and effect. Reversing a cause and effect is the incorrect way to do it. Reversing a cause an effect is when someone mistakenly think that the cause is caused by the effect when there is no back up support or evidence. There are other reasons that should be taken into consideration when evaluating a claim.
An example would be "I got in trouble that is why my parents got divorced." A lot of kids think that when their parents get divorced, it is because something that they did. But it is not exactly true. People get divorced for a lot of reasons.