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common cause
the sufficiency problem of ignoring common causes

description

Common Cause Fallacy occurs when one phenomenon is assumed to cause another phenomenon, when in fact they do not influence each other, but occur together because they are influenced by a third phenomenon.

examples

"TV violence is causing more violence in our society."


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Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.
attribution:senator carl Schurz




|created 2002.03.24 |um 2002.07.23 |r 2009.09.12@07:25 | GTK
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