Causation strengthening, Causation weakening

Martin01

When it comes to CAUSATION strengthening and CAUSATION weakening questions, I know how to do them, but I have a hard time determining if causation is in the conclusion, which is needed to approach these questions correctly.

Can some please tell me what to toll for in order to do the correct?

Accounts Playable

Usually, causation questions are pretty cookie cutter on the exam. For instance, the argument will begin with a correlation/relationship between two things, but then draw a causal conclusion. Key buzzwords that tend to tip you off that the argument is going to make a causal claim are "correlation," "cause," "therefore, the program was effective," "this proves/shows that X is the reason for Y." Things like that. The list is imperfect, and the LSAT is great at obfuscating its intentions, but it's a good start. With more practice, you'll eventually be able to just "see" that the question is causal since so many of them are so similar.

aaro.nj1

Accounts playable is right, most of the causation weaken/strengthening questions that i have come across draw some correlation between two things and then make a casual conclusion that you either need to best weaken or best strengthen.

DumbHollywoodActor

By no means an exhaustive list of indicators:
caused by
because of
responsible for
reason for
leads to
induced by
promoted by
determined by
produced by
product of
played a role in
was a factor in
is an effect of

twssmith

This is an Achilles' heel of mine - thx for the indicator list @DumbHollywoodActor