Lessons tagged “causal-reasoning”
5 published lessons with this tag.
perception
Correlation is not causation in personal patterns
Two things happening together does not mean one causes the other.
schema
Types of relationships
Relationships can be causal, temporal, sequential, hierarchical, associative, and more. Naming the type of a relationship determines what reasoning you can perform across it.
schema
Directed versus undirected relationships
Some relationships have direction — A causes B is different from B causes A.
schema
Causal chains are sequences of relationships
Tracing a chain of causes and effects reveals the full mechanism behind an outcome.
agents
The five whys technique
Asking why five times in succession usually reaches the root cause of a problem.