Technical Analyses Flashcards
Applies all five senses
Description
Sequence of how to do something
Process analysis
- Make or do
- 2nd person
Directive (process analysis)
- How something works
- 3rd person
- Usually chronological
Explanatory (process analysis)
Treats several aspects to one subject at a time
Subject by subject (compare and contrast)
Shifts back and forth between subjects for each aspect
Point by point (compare and contrast)
- Appeal to emotion
- Persuasion
- Ignores other positions and consequences
- Distorts the truth
- Bias
- Assumptions
- Manipulative
Propaganda
- What and why
- One effect can be the cause of something else
- Correlation is not causation
Cause and effect
Instantaneous effect
Immediate cause (cause and effect)
Later effects
Remote cause (cause and effect)
Most contribution cause
Main cause (cause and effect)
Other factors
Contributing (cause and effect)
Cause always accompanies the effect
Necessary (cause and effect)
Only cause that produces that effect
Sufficient (cause and effect)
- B cannot happen without A
- Whenever A happens B must happen
Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy (cause and effect)
