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How to diagram A because of B?

by xinglipku Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:33 am

Can I diagram it as B----->A?
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Re: How to diagram A because of B?

by ManhattanPrepLSAT1 Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:36 pm

If you did, you'd be mistaking correlation for causation. "Because of" implies a causal relationship, and I try to avoid diagramming causality into a conditional relationship, which is strictly speaking simply correlation.

I simply wouldn't diagram A because of B.
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