The fishbone diagram, also known as the cause-and-effect or Ishikawa diagram, is considered one of the seven basic quality tools for process improvement. The diagram can be used to structure a brainstorming session and is ideal for teams who have fallen into habitual ways of thinking and ope...
Canada was hit by a double whammy; a reallocation recession, plus a demand shock recession. The net effect was a deeper than necessary recession, and no change in inflation. Still it could have been worse. Money wasn’t as tight as in the US and Europe. Since then (former BOC governor)...
And, given that the Ancient Greek couldn’t know about this original misconception―they were themselves descendants of “specialized” gods― it happens that this “original fallacy” has imbued all of our philosophies of life since then, and that it will be a lot tougher to accept now for ...
Because of the concept of simultaneous causation, your argument fails and there is no fallacy in our argument. NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team Dear John Thanks for your email. You wrote (see responses interspersed): My god, are you people gullible and narrow-minded!
But, while this account is not inaccurate or without import, it has been profoundly influenced by the deep impulse in American culture to make moral meaning out of historical racism—determining which facts merit selection and which ones don’t. The effect is to render a moral analysis of hist...
Twice as many CO2 molecules, all busy doing precisely what they do and for long into the future. CO2 may be a trace gas but because of that intrinsic property it has, that doesn't matter.Cartoon summaryThis Cranky Uncle cartoon depicts the "Red Herring" fallacy for which the climate myth...
And that’s why CO2 has a positive feedback mechanism on warming. Henry’s Law and the van ‘t Hoff equation quantify this effect. Nice OWN GOAL, SquidBoy. EH?? Is there some connection between Web’s comment and the point of squid he is responding to ? Or this this just a particul...
All stock market bubbles eventually burst, meaning that stock prices suddenly and sharply decline. While any number of events can lead to a bubble bursting, stock market crashes often occur after a key source of credit dries up. A credit contraction was the main reason for the 2008 housing bu...
Fallacy of Composition = FALCOM (0) The “fallacy of composition” occurs by inferring that if something is true of a part, then it must also be true of the whole. This flaw has been an unintended feature of the Principle of Proportionality since Francisco de Vitoria proposed it in th...