A cruise ship from Turks and Caicos, being driven by a crew made up of dolphins, was taken over by pirates. All of the dolphin crew was executed and when the pirates got to Hawaii, their dream vacation destination, they dumped the dolphins overboard. The dolphins were swept away in a current that brought their bodies to that specific beach.
So just to recap, a causation relationship is never going to be a "true or false" kind of question, only a "most strongly supported by which explanation" kind of question?
And the target phenomenon is the "effect", and the hypothesis/potential explanation is the "cause".
@CannyHeroicNegotiation I guess it's like medical diagnoses. A rash, fever, runny nose, and chills could be a cold, flu, or meningitis. I think these would all be correct explanations but the true explanation would have to be confirmed with more tests. This is just my guess though!
Couldn't each of these hypotheses be contributing to the observed phenomenon? Thus, both are potential links in the causal chain. They're not necessarily mutually exclusive and therefore not necessarily competing. Toxic runoff and algal bloom could both be contributing to dolphin deaths.
I believe yes, in the sense that there can be two "correct" answers, but one answer is more "correct" than the other. In this specific example, we don't have enough context to decipher which is more correct.
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Poseidon auramogged the dolphins
You got this...
the happiness aura killing the dolphins is sending me so hard
subtitles take up too much of the screen #feedback
#feedback i cant read his writing
I don't know how I feel about the fact that the last sentence of this lesson was a conditional 😅 I'm traumatized I think.
A cruise ship from Turks and Caicos, being driven by a crew made up of dolphins, was taken over by pirates. All of the dolphin crew was executed and when the pirates got to Hawaii, their dream vacation destination, they dumped the dolphins overboard. The dolphins were swept away in a current that brought their bodies to that specific beach.
J.Y. uses the British pronounciation of 'algae'...
So just to recap, a causation relationship is never going to be a "true or false" kind of question, only a "most strongly supported by which explanation" kind of question?
And the target phenomenon is the "effect", and the hypothesis/potential explanation is the "cause".
Ahh… this is where being a former science teacher begins to help. The words phenomenon and hypothesis are in our everyday vocabulary!
rest in peace dolphins
comical
what is meant by "any correct explanation"?
@CannyHeroicNegotiation I guess it's like medical diagnoses. A rash, fever, runny nose, and chills could be a cold, flu, or meningitis. I think these would all be correct explanations but the true explanation would have to be confirmed with more tests. This is just my guess though!
Poseidon analogy making reference to Kant's categories?
"that's not funny idk why i laughed" LOLLLL
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There's no audio on this lesson for some reason.
Couldn't each of these hypotheses be contributing to the observed phenomenon? Thus, both are potential links in the causal chain. They're not necessarily mutually exclusive and therefore not necessarily competing. Toxic runoff and algal bloom could both be contributing to dolphin deaths.
I believe yes, in the sense that there can be two "correct" answers, but one answer is more "correct" than the other. In this specific example, we don't have enough context to decipher which is more correct.
Bro really said for the lols. Love it! Best course ever