Cause & Effect website

1). What was useful about the Cause and Effect website reading and exercises?


The Cause and Effect website was very useful in understanding Causal Arguments more in depth.  The basic idea of Cause and Effect (Causal), is one event (A) causes the next even (B).  The Cause and Effect website makes you consider more factors about Causal Arguments.  Three main factors to cause and effects are 1. how acceptable or demonstrable the implied comparison is, 2. how likely the causation seems to be, and 3. how credible the "only significance difference" or "only significant commonality" claim is (Causal Arguments).  Basically, we must consider all other things that may have effected the event to happen.  We cannot always say A directly caused B to happen.  There can be other considerations like the possibility that this event occurs often, occurred once, what other possible causes may have occurred, weather, time -- who, what, where, when, what, how --- anything and everything.  For example, Tim spilled water on the floor. Walking by, Sarah slipped on wet floor, which caused her to fall, which made her clothes wet from falling on the wet floor.  One argument that can be made is that if Tim didn't spill water, then Sarah wouldn't have fell on the wet floor.  Another argument can be that if Sarah only saw the wet floor, she could have dodged the fall.  There are multiple causes that can be seen to cause an event to occur.