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Originally Posted by pilotbob
One thing you have to be careful here is that many non-technical people who don't know how stuff works attribute cause and effect when it was nothing more than co-incidence.
For example, My tire is low and now I can't start my car. You notice the tire is low, then you can't start your car. But, that doesn't mean one item caused the other.
BOb
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That is precisely what I meant when I said that it's a classic case of
post hoc ergo propter hoc - literally "after this, therefore because of this". ie a false assumption that because "event B" occurs after "event A", event A is the
cause of event B.