Dyer Chapter 5 (Causal Claims) Flashcards
Causal Claims
argue that certain events or factors (causes) are responsible for bringing about other events or situations (effects).
Cause-and-effect Example
Sales of frozen foods are falling because consumers are increasingly concerned about high amounts of salt. Salt is the cause and falling sales is the effect.
Reverse Causation
When 2 factors, A and B, are correlated, it may be that A is causing B, but it is also possible that B is causing A.
Causal Link
Ice-cream and heart attack example
Post hoc, ergo, propter hoc
after this, therefore, because of this
After the new policing strategy was introduced, the crime rate decreased; therefore, we assume that the decrease in crime must have occurred because of the strategy.